A published author outside of Helium.com since the 1980's, I was once even awarded as international writer of the week by renowned actor, Rutger Hauer. I've been a solid writer of intense fiction since college days and beyond, I once held positions as Sr. Technical Writer at US West Technologies (now Qwest Technologies) and later at The Regence Group.

My jobs have been as diverse as a sanitation officer at a drive-in theater during high school, then a mail clerk at an insurance company, later a bodyguard, a writer, a computer mainframe and PC technician, a screenwriter with Scorpio Productions, and while in the US Air Force, a survival equipment specialist in rubber gear, life rafts, environmental suits, and a supervisor of a parachute rigger shop.

Now with my two very cool kids, my twenty year old son and my sixteen year old daughter, both very talented artists and musicians in their own right; along with an orientation to Life by way of Buddhism, Aikido and Phenomenology (no, not phrenology), for the past couple of decades I have been in pursuit of that elusive doorway out of the realm of Information & Internet Technologies, or what the French call, ennui and the great Mike Nesmith called, the Grand Ennui.

My passion is ...

Art, Beauty & Knowledge, not in that order, necessarily....

I know too much about ...

things I'd rather not know about

My parents always told me ...

rob Peter to pay Paul

My childhood ambition ...

Astronaut, test pilot

My favorite memory ...

is connecting with someone special, its what Life's all about

Why I write ...

because it flows; sometimes I simply cannot stop it

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

Portishead

My first job ...

was in 9th grade, clearing the field at a drive-in theatre

My best moment ...

was one sunny day, 1500 feet up, when I finally got my parachute to open

My inspiration ...

is my children

Relationships & Family > Children & Divorce The impact of divorce on young children

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SO, you find yourself divorced, or you are about to be. And you have young children. Now what?

Possibly, you are distraught. Possibly your ex is distraught. Possibly, she (or he) now has a new significant other and may even be living in "over there".

So, how do you think all this affects the kids?

The web site, helpguide.org has some very good suggestions for coping with divorce. Obviously, you first, you want to take steps to reduce the traumatic effects of the divorce on your kids. But you also need to do that for yourself and your ex. Yes, your ex. The fewer people going thr...

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