Living in the real Hawaii on Oahu is not all it's cracked up to be. Yet, when you work, talk to your kid, have a fight with your wife or are having a crappy day in general, you are still in Hawaii.
I am a former soldier, a teacher with special needs kids, a tennis coach, and someone who has written for the love of it for the past 20+ years.
Louis Marvin is a name I have used since 1988, and it is the angels that reside on my shoulders throughout life. They are the two gone but not forgotten grandfathers, who instill blue collar ethics in my often white collar world.
Welcome to the world of Louis Marvin.
My passion is ...
My wife, daughter, tennis, music, writing and movies.
I know too much about ...
movies and music
My parents always told me ...
You are not a follower, you are a leader
My childhood ambition ...
rock star or tennis pro
My favorite memory ...
my daughter being born
Why I write ...
in my blood, and it's a mess
What I am reading/watching/listening to ...
Honolulu Weekly/2001: A Space Odyssey/Tchaikovsky
My first job ...
paper boy
My best moment ...
each new weekend in Hawaii with wife and daughter
My inspiration ...
the blue collar ethics of Louis and Marvin & JMB & Sandra Sue
Spiders! Ladder, cliff and high rise. . . Sharks, germs, closet/elevator, Oh my! Black guy, middle east guy, white supreme guy, homeless guy, rapist guy. . . Oh my! Undercooked meat, nuclear bombs, 9-11, plane crashing, tainted mayonaise, Oh my! New flus, aids, alzheimers and birds and mosquitos. . . Oh my! Scary inside my house, scary outside too, scary computer, scary phone. . . Oh my! Scared with people, scared alone, scared to live and scared to die. . . Oh my. Don't watch cable, read the paper, look at the www. or rent Michael Moore videos. Because Betty Sue, it's a scary world out th...
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Member since: September 2007
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