: About Me

Bill is a Senior Staff Writer for TigerBoxing.com, a Suite101.com Expert Boxing Contributor, a member of the Boxing Writer's Association of America, an International Boxing Hall of Fame elector, and a die-hard St. Louis Cardinal fan. He's also been known to sling a bass over his shoulder and get funky.

His favorite writer is Ernest Hemingway. His favorite magazine columnist is Peter Egan. (Road and Track, Cycle World).

Bill is blessed with a lovely wife of 16 years, two boys aged nine and five, and a two-year-old pug.

Check out some of his work:

www.bill-onwriting.blogspot.com

www.tigerboxing.com

www.billstuff.net

www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/billstuff

My passion is ...

Writing

I know too much about ...

Music

My parents always told me ...

I was lazy

My childhood ambition ...

To be a writer

My favorite memory ...

First baseball game with my son.

Why I write ...

To create something from nothing. To communicate.

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

Ernest Hemingway and Peter Egan

My first job ...

As an aide in a group home for multi-handicapped persons.

My best moment ...

Becoming a Christian.

My inspiration ...

Who knows?

Politics, News & Issues > Environmental Awareness Easy ways your family can "go green"

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So you want to "go green" but you don't know where to start? Try starting with the greenest thing you have, your grass. If you're like me, you've spent years huffing lawn mower exhaust while raising your heart rate by pushing it around the yard. Like running a 5k directly behind a loping '72 Chevy Impala. Can't be good. Here's what I did, for myself and for my quarter-acre lawn: I bought a good, old-fashioned reel mower. You know the type. No engine to start. No gas to pour. No oil to check. It has a few revolving helical blades (as few as three, as many as seven), powered by simply pushin...

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