In the early '70s, Padgett wrote two poetry books, Dog Days Poems and Horse's Nose Poems. He and his wife Sie took the first book of poetry all the way across Canada to Nova Scotia and back selling the first 1,000 copies to cover a summers worth of travel and promotion. Padgett had worked as an insurance underwriter and had also taken a B.A. degree in history. Even with that experience, he still felt a longing to return to the farming roots he had grown up with. As a result, he and Sie came to the Atnarko Valley in British Columbia, where they lived rent-free for 15 years in exchange for turning an old eighty-acre property into a horse farm. After the farm was sold, the Padgett family moved down into the Bella Coola Valley, where he and Sie reside still. In 2014, Padgett wrote The Atnarko Writings, an expression of some of the history, people and events he and his family experienced while living in the Atnarko Valley. In 1994, Padgett began to experience the series of lucid dreams that compelled him to embark on the journey of discovery that produced this latest book, A Dream Within A Dream.