: About Me

...at 57 years young,I have led a life more intense than fiction. Came up in the 60s in Berkely,SF, and the Bay Area.Served as a Ranger in Viet Nam.Worked for the Intelligence Community for a number of years.Worked in Silicon Valley,my badge number at Atari was 54. I have tried being married 3 times but discovered that its not like riding a bicycle;ya can't just hop right back on.I have friends in Moscow and La Rochell. I am currently residing in the buckel of the Rust Belt, trying very hard to find my way back to California before my parents,both in their 80s, pass on.Problem is financial as anyone who has been there recently will know.It costs about $60,000 per year to be poor in Northern california,
Napa in particular.

My passion is ...

My writing

I know too much about ...

what really happened in Viet Nam

My parents always told me ...

responsibility is equated with money, (They lied)

My childhood ambition ...

to go to the 1968 Olympics,Diving. ended with a car crash.

My favorite memory ...

being with my Anya in Scotland

Why I write ...

because I see the world so differently than others

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

The Myth Hunters,Andrew Golden..PBS...the summer winds

My first job ...

Babysitting my little brother

My best moment ...

winning a Tri-County Chili Cook Off on my 50th birthday

My inspiration ...

the hope that I will see Anya at least once more

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: As October begins

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...cool slate grey October when she said that her love for me had wilted, had died. She rose from our lover's bed, and turned her face away. " Every spoken word' she said softly, is dependant on a caring listener. just as every written word requires a gentle reader and neither of these things have you ever been for me."

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