: About Me

Since the age of 27 i have tried to be a serious writer.
i was not successful during that period and figured that i lacked experience. made another attempt at 49 after i was satisfied that i had learned enough, but resistances foiled that attempt.

now at age 58 i feel that this will be the last hurrah.

My passion is ...

now...is writing

I know too much about ...

many things

My parents always told me ...

nothing

My childhood ambition ...

to be a ballet dancer

My favorite memory ...

seeing a family of deer in a mountain meadow

Why I write ...

because i have much to say

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

hemingway's Moveable Feast

My first job ...

weeding a flower bed

My best moment ...

the first day i realized i was a writer

My inspiration ...

hemingway..stienbeck..London...twain..lenin

Arts & Humanities > Political Philosophy Capitalism vs. Socialism: Which do you prefer?

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I have been a socialist most of my adult life. I first began to study the philosophy and concepts of socialism while I was in my twenties. With two years of study in economics at a university, a degree in history and through deeper, independent study, a qualified understanding of socialism developed. And as the years passed, I have grown hardened in the belief in the concepts of socialism. Now that I have qualified myself, I can say this: There are many definitions of socialism. But the one I found most easyfor people to grasp was the one given by William Pritchard in 1972. He wrote, "This...

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