"At the ripe old age of 54, I decided to read Peter Pan. The story, if you’ve never read it, is about imagination, creativity, magic and make-believe. We are all born with a young creative mind. Over the years, work stress and adult pressures can change all that. In the book, Peter Pan stays young, while the other characters grow up and stop believing in all the magical things he showed them when they were young.

Everybody gets old eventually, except Peter. I started coming to Long Beach in 1978 when I was 12. Like every 12-year-old boy, I had an active,
creative, playful spirit."