Dragon’s Tale is based on myself and my children Paul and Anna as we grew up and down together.
I learned up and down the ladder of life with my children. Paul, at six, sometimes played like a child, but at others he assumed the role of our family’s provider and bought us all dinner at a fine restaurant, the local doughnut shop.

Anna’s mind solved any problem she encountered with a fluidity of hot butter on the mica belly of a landing space craft. She explained ‘The Mysteries’ like she was directly and genetically related to Jung and Madam Curie both. She once reminded me, as if EVERYBODY has always known it, that people grow up to grandma age to then down to baby, then up again.
I can’t figure out how to get my body to grow down but because I hated holidays I decided to grow down, start over. So I invented two holidays a month to look forward to and celebrate as a family.
With this fluid butter brainness in mind I’ll explain a story problem I’ve written myself into.  It concerns Anna’s dragon, Iva Lou. Sometimes she’s heavily furred but at others she has more scales than fur. Worse yet; her scale pattern changes. (I didn’t want to redraw the pictures) I thought it over and couldn’t explain it. Finally I asked Iva Lou, who probably taught Madam Curie all she knew, and Iva Lou told Anna to tell me, “My Grandma’s a shape shifting muskrat!” I can see that now.
To read Anna telling strange women, “Thirty two.” when they asked her how old she was, read Dragon’s Tale at Amazon.  nancymauerman.com