Ravioli the Writer used to be Ravioli the Magical Clown — balloon twister, storyteller and magician extraordinaire — who did tons and tons of birthday parties and other fun events and had a wonderful time making people happy for about 20 years.

Then one day Ravioli said to his beautiful wife, “I need a vacation.”

To which she replied, “Let’s move to the San Juan Islands!”

And so they did. And now, instead of making balloon dogs and balloon flowers and leaving balloon hats lying around all over the place, Ravioli designs books and book covers and writes short stories and poetry and plays and nonfiction and is trying really hard to keep his blog and website updated as often as possible.

It’s a very different lifestyle, and a good one, with friends and deer and rabbits and a house that always needs fixing. Ravioli the Writer is happy.

But every once in awhile, he still can’t resist pulling a rabbit out of his hat.