: About Me

I am a Baby Boomer living in the Pacific Northwest.

I enjoy learning, reading and writing about just about everything. I try to write from the Baby Boomer perspective with honesty, a sense of humor, and without taking myself, my writing, or my generation too seriously.

My favorite things to review are books and movies. I like movies, plays, and books with strong characterization. I think a work with strong characters but a weak plot can be enjoyable but a strong plot with weak characters will always fail. I've written more than two hundred reviews that I have scattered over the Internet. Currently I'm trying to link them at http://reviews.tfedge.com.

I try to write with a Baby Boomer as my audience. We're no longer the target audience for much of the entertainment industry. I like to think it's because we're to experienced to fall for the crap that appears in summer movies and in reality-based television.

I hope you enjoy my essays and reviews.

My passion is ...

Learning things. I'm always reading books, doing academic research, and taking classes.

I know too much about ...

Classical Greek

My parents always told me ...

I don't know. If they always told me something I probably wasn't paying attention and that's why they had to always keep telling me.

My childhood ambition ...

I wanted to be Mighty Mouse

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I'm doing a Katharine Hepburn film festival at my home, watching as many of her movies as I can find. I'm reading a half a dozen books. The one nearest me at the moment is "American Creation" by Joseph J. Ellis.

My first job ...

I worked as a groundskeeper in a graveyard. Yes, I did help bury people.

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