: About Me

My professional capabilities: Technically degreed (BS Chemistry), strategic marketer with extensive experience selling and developing new business for both Fortune 500 and private companies. Proven ability to create marketing and sales programs to leap ahead of the competition. In-depth expertise in specialty polymers and custom mixed elastomers, especially transplanted Asian automotive companies. Clear, concise written communications: a nationally-published writer. Advanced computer and Internet skills; an early adopter. Socially fluent in Japanese and can read German.

My writing creds: essays, columns and feature articles have appeared in the following publications: The Washington Post, USA Today, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Japan Related magazine, as well as numerous local weekly publications. I've been told, too, that my business letters and other business writings (strategic plans, etc.) are among the most concise, readable documents of their sort.

My writing education: Voluminous reading, a keen sense of humor and one creative writing course, with most of the credit going to the reading. I read what I like, I write as I would like to speak, and that is the crucible from which my writing emerges.

My passion is ...

writing.

My parents always told me ...

I could do anything I wanted.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a scientist.

My favorite memory ...

our daughter's wedding.

Why I write ...

my fingers can say what my mind thinks. My oral abilities are no match for them.

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

Outliers/24/Eric Johnson

My first job ...

pulling chickens out of cages by their legs. Not a pretty sight.

My best moment ...

tomorrow.

My inspiration ...

My wife, my daughters, my friends.

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CLIMBING FOOLS Japanese wisdom has it that you're a fool if you've never climbed Mt. Fuji; also that you're twice the fool if you climb it more than once. By this definition, I'm no longer a fool, but I have no intention of re-attaining the status. Reaching the top of Mt. Fuji -"Fuji san cho" - is a must-do of Japanese life, though fewer than 0.5% of the population ever make it up. The normally snow-capped dormant volcano appears in what seems half the paintings in Japan, and companies named after Fuji are as common as AAAAcme Plumbers in a US phone book. In fact, few people see the top in...

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