I grew up in the fire service and law enforcement fields in Washington State.  I have been a fire fighter, EMT, fire trainer, commissioned deputy sheriff, writer, artist, inventor, and husband for over 40 years. There are 5 PH.d's in my immediate family. My writings, while entertaining in nature, are absolutely rooted in facts.  When I was a kid, there was much acclaim about the world television premier of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho', I made a ho-hum comment to my Mother about how unexciting that could be, an old black and white movie, big deal!  My Mother was college educated, traveled the world, and was very much in tune with world events. She stopped and looked at me and said, "You have no idea how terrified women were to take showers for years after that movie was released." I sat back, even as a kid, and realized I had been sent a message. My Mother being astute and educated and hung around with other similar folks was bedeviled by a mere snippet of black and white film. I thought, "If i could write well enough to create that sort of emotion, then I would be doing okay!" My evil intent is that a few years after you read de-pop, when you are in the bathroom and the mirror is all foggy, you reach up and clear a space for you to see your reflection, and the instant before the toothpaste touches your lips, you stop, and think, "That guy may have put something in here!"