I have been a technical writer for over 35 years. About 10 years back my wife asked me why I didn’t write a novel. I said that I didn’t know what to write about. Then some time later she was looking at some things from her childhood that she had stored in her cedar chest. One thing was a teddy bear. She told me the story of how she had received him. This inspired me to write the story of Delbert C. Bear, esq. Her dad’s name was Charles Delbert so I turned it around and made the bear’s first name Delbert and just made his middle name the letter C. The first little girl, Abigail, was named after her sister’s daughter. I named Abigail’s child after my wife, Ardith Lynn.