“If You Can Ask The Question…It’s Not Too Late”

Steven Barnes
7 min readSep 6, 2021

Many years ago, I met Leo and Diane Dillon, artist friends of and collaborators with the great Harlan Ellison, and TRUE masters of their craft:: where Diane stopped drawing a line, Leo picked it up, and vice versa. I was so pleased to meet them, and they extended an invitation to visit with them if I ever came to Greenwich Village. I eventually did take that invitation, with the intent to ask them about my 1st wife’s artistic ambitions. They were so pleasant and filled with life, such a natural blending of two souls that it really, deeply hit me that I was in the presence…

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.