: About Me

I am a writer. That statement alone has taken years to bubble to the top. I was a slave to technology the first moment I figured out, "Hey, I can teach a machine to do that? .... Cool!". I spent years of my life teaching machines to do marvelous things only to have someone else push their buttons and ultimately destroy what I had wrought. Coolness turned into a deep freeze and I became the light house keeper, who knows that light houses aren't needed any more, but he goes every night to make sure the light is burning brightly for the minions who refuse to embrace the future. I hold the keys to the time portal and no one may come through without a scar or wound inflicted not once but many times over until the unbearable truth is wrought like a finely honed blade. The truth is we need to upgrade. But instead I spend my days babysitting computers, contemplating being a grandparent, and wondering how different the world would be if I wrote just one line..............

My passion is ...

sailing

I know too much about ...

everything

My parents always told me ...

put that book down and watch where we're going.

My childhood ambition ...

astronaut

My favorite memory ...

all the ones I still remember

Why I write ...

God keeps telling me to.

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

test tone / warning tone in my right ear (tinnitis) depending on my mood

My first job ...

driving horse drawn hayrides for highly inebriated city folk

My best moment ...

the day I said, "I do"

My inspiration ...

my family

Politics, News & Issues > War & Terrorism Why it is important to remember the 9/11 terrorism attacks

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9-1-1 Remembered. It's funny how you think of things in different perspectives. Today is the anniversary of that terrible attack on the World Trade Center. This is the day I think that America started taking the threat of terrorism seriously. For me the day I started taking it seriously was a day like any other day in the green machine in 1974. Although I thought I was headed for Vietnam, much to my surprise, I was stationed in Frankfurt, Germany instead. Vietnam was a lost cause and while no one wanted to admit that, we were no longer sending every able bodied soldier to the morass it had...

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