Drawing with Words Words. Words draw pictures like paintings of stories waiting to be told. As a writer and journalist, I love telling stories. My first book, Quantum Leaps in Princeton’s Place, is a story about the interviews of the oldest people living in Princeton, New Jersey at the time. About several months after the interviews, my daughter had a play date with a new friend. That encounter led to the finding of the original homeowner’s diary from 1912 in the basement of…..