: About Me

I am a proud father of four adult daughters and a grandfather and a great-grandfather to be. I have been blessed with seventeen grand children. I served in the United States Air Force for 17 years,left with a disability in 1987.

While in the Air Force, I travelled to thirty five countries on four continents. I also visited forty two states in this country. I enjoyed my travels because I read about most of the places I visited during high school.

I have owned several businesses. My favorite pasttime is reading, writing, cooking and interacting with my grandchildren.

My passion is ...

politics, family, cooking and reading

My parents always told me ...

fend for yourself

My childhood ambition ...

visit all the countries I read about in school

My favorite memory ...

catching my first fish

Why I write ...

to express my passions

My first job ...

was a stand-in as an "extra" in the movie The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

My best moment ...

being present when my first daughter was born at 2 am on July 25,1972.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Growing up gardening: My most amazing gardening memory

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In March 1965 I celebrated my 15th birthday by planting a melon garden. It was a watermelon garden to be exact. I grew up on our farm in Dallas County Alabama outside of the city limits of Selma. This garden was very special to me because I didn't think it would amount much to anything. The reason I thought so negatively was I doing something special in my life. It was during the time of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights march. I had plowed a two acre plot of land near a small creek on our farm. The soil was a rich mixture of dark black soil and sand. Prior to sowing the seeds, I put an...

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