: About Me

I was born a little over a half century ago in western Massachusetts; Daniel Shays country. I have been married half that time to my college sweetheart, Anita.

My forebears came here from Lithuania, Canada, Ireland and Italy; they represent the many ethnicities (North American Indian and European), which make up the peoples of those lands. I grew up blue-collar Roman Catholic, but left the Church and Christianity behind in 1975.

My parents and extended family sought to help me grow up to be my own man. This is a task my dad has said they did too well (with a little chuckle, though).

My faith is called Asatru and it does inform how I live my life.

The center of this is the belief in and worship of the Aesir and Vanir; the Holy Ones of the elder Germanic and Nordic peoples.

From the ethical standpoint I have learned from Asatru; I seek to do that which is right for family, friends and community, with wisdom, generosity and personal honor. Sometimes I do come up short.

I cook, brew, sew, make craft items in leather, cloth, wood and metal, read, write and more.

In my faith community I have gained some note as a poet.

Most of all, I am interested in good conversation.

My passion is ...

being a good husband to my wife.

I know too much about ...

so many things.

My parents always told me ...

to learn and to think for myself.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a published author.

My favorite memory ...

is of sitting in a treestand while hunting and having a kestrel land five feet from me.

Why I write ...

because I must; something inside pushes me to do so.

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

currently I am reading the "Lost Regiment" series by William Forstchen

My first job ...

was after Kindergarten each day. I swept the front stoop and sidewalk area of my maternal grandparents' shoe shop.

My best moment ...

according to my wife, is when I am sleeping without snoring.

My inspiration ...

is almost everything I experience. Life is full of poetic significance.

Religion & Spirituality > Pagan & Earth-Based Religions What a Folk is

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[[One of the list to which I subscribe discusses the modern worship of the Gods and Goddesses of Olympus. They have been having a discussion on the attitude of native Hellenes towards their religion and heritage. - Pip]] If I may? I am here (and in Nova Roma) because part of my heritage lies amongst the Latin, Italic and Hellenic peoples. Therefore, I do give some of my honor and respect to the Capitoline Holies and to the Olympians. I am a follower of Asatru (the belief in and giving of worship to the Aesir and Vanir of the northern Germanic - Scandinavian peoples) because most of my heri...

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