: About Me

I'm a retired attorney with a special passion for the stock market.  I have a great deal of experience in investing. Over the last 20 years, I've managed several portfolios totalling over 1 million dollars and have extensive knowledge of stocks, bonds, mutual funds and ETFs.  My finance writing specializes in making the stock market understandable to the ordinary person.

I'm a fanatical indoor and outdoor gardener, enjoy drawing and painting, and am  involved in amateur theater. My  favorite websites are amazon.com, smartmoney.com and www.aggs.org. My nonfiction has been published by Greenprints magazine, BackHome magazine, and Writer's Journal.  I have also sold several short stories.

I have written extensively for the web, and my work has been featured on several finance and garden websites.

My passion is ...

passions are: gardening, color, trying to figure out the meaning of life

I know too much about ...

plants

My parents always told me ...

when the right one comes along, you'll know it

My childhood ambition ...

to be a teacher, and then to write encyclopeidias when I retired

My favorite memory ...

going down to the creek behind my childhood home

Why I write ...

to make the distance between me and other people a little smaller

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

Pilgrim Souls, a collection of spiritual autobiography, and Seeing Voices, about the world of the deaf

My first job ...

popcorn girl at a movie theatre

My best moment ...

there've been lots of them

My inspiration ...

flowers

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Since the time of the Enlightenment, Western culture has placed a heavy emphasis on individual rights.  That emphasis has improved society in countless ways.  From the abolition of slavery to the right to free speech, people have benefited from the belief that all human beings have the right to pursue individual happiness and to speak their truth as they see it. For most of subsequent history, that emphasis on the individual was balanced by strong countervailing forces.  Many people spent their entire lives in the place they were born.  They were part of a family, a com...

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