: About Me

I've squeezed many lifetimes into one, a jack-of-all-trades, master of none! I was a grave digger, a welder, a professional photographer, a hired farm hand, a builder of store and bank fixtures, a brace maker, an amateur ESP researcher, a cabinet maker, a carpenter, an artist, an art gallery owner, a nightclub designer/builder, a history buff, a writer/publisher, a restorer of early homes, an amateur genetics theorist, as well as a husband and father... although I was probably always too busy to fulfill my responsibilities in regards to those last two.
Today, as a 77 year old retiree, I'm a volunteer karaoke DJ, going around to nursing homes,veteran's homes and senior centers conducting sing-alongs.

My passion is ...

Writing

I know too much about ...

Palestine

My parents always told me ...

Keep good credit

My childhood ambition ...

RAF pilot

My favorite memory ...

Meeting Karen

Why I write ...

Catharsis

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

World news

My first job ...

Gravedigging

My best moment ...

Meeting Karen

My inspiration ...

Karen

Politics, News & Issues > War & Peace Debate on the war in Iraq

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The war in Iraq is closely following the Vietnam war in so many ways. The United States blundered its way into a misadventure in Vietnam, spending billions of dollars and untold loss of life and limb on a failing policy of trying to promote a lie. We have now, again, blundered our way into another such misadventure in Iraq and are again trying to find a face-saving way to remove ourselves from it without the same humiliating consequences we endured in exiting Vietnam. In both cases we invaded another country with much arrogance and a total ignorance of their historical and cultural heritag...

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