: About Me

Hmmm, writing a writers bio. This is a difficult subject becasue I'm a little too broad a subject to fit on a few paragraphs. I'm an antiques dealer, chef, computer guy as well as a husband to a wonderful and forgiving woman and stepdad to college age boys. If I made a lot of money or was famous, I would be a renaissance man. But since I'm not able to be rich or famous, I'm just into a lot of things.

I enjoy writing because it gives me a chance to talk to people. I like to talk to people, but really enjoy not having them argue with me. I'm not opinionated but I enjoy my opinions better than most people.

My passion is ...

staying alive...

I know too much about ...

too many things. Unfortunately, you can't make money doing that

My parents always told me ...

I'd never amount to much. They were right.

My childhood ambition ...

to be an adult.

My favorite memory ...

having my Mother read to me and my sister and my Dad.

Why I write ...

because it is better than talking to complete strangers.

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

silence. I like silence.

My first job ...

was a janitor. I still hate cleaning bathrooms.

My best moment ...

was figuring out my best friend should be my wife.

My inspiration ...

My wife, my stepsons, my friends.

Food & Drink > Baking Baking a cake over a campfire

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Open fire cooking is a return to the origins of cooking where flame and food meet are able to combine to create masterpieces. The joy of cooking over an open fire is to understand how tough the pioneers and the early settlers had it. Cooking over an open fire is work, but there are rewards. Like cake. We tend to think of open fire cooking as meat on a stick burnt to a crisp. Anything that can be done in a home kitchen can be cooked over an open fire. There are some tricks to learn, but even something as sweet and tasty as a cake can be done on an open fire. The main trick is the dutch oven...

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