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About me

I'm a professional writer with experience in writing features, news, columns and sports for a daily newspaper, as well as advertising, direct mail, press releases, magazine, and business writing both as a paid staffer and freelancer.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

writing, hockey, and being a dad.

I know too much about ...

movies

My parents always told me ...

I talked too much

My childhood ambition ...

to work in the movies

My favorite memory ...

the birth and adoption of my kids

Why I write ...

I love everything about it

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

Red Wings hockey game

My first job ...

busboy at a seafood place

My best moment ...

the first time a major newspaper published one of my pieces

My inspiration ...

my wife

Featured article by Cean Burgeson

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: World War II: 2 of 21

"Many times I feel that the Almighty had his hand around my shoulder, or I wouldn't be here," says Carl Carlstrom, who served as a flight engineer aboard a B-17(G) Flying Fortress over the skies of Europe during the second world war. As an enlistee in the Army Air Corps at the age of 19 in 1942, Carlstrom said "that's what I wanted I wanted to fly." He had no idea that this choice would eventually find him 30,000 feet in the air, amid 1,000 pound bombs one of them "hot" or armed while he manually cranked open the airship's malfunctioning bomb bay doors. "I had gone back through the ship to...
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