: About Me

Having been born one of the very first Baby Boomers, and educated in Ann Arbor, Michigan, I have seen much and learned much about life. Life experience, education, and humor are valuable tools for any aspiring writer and I have reached the point in my life where I am ready to earn money at my keyboard.
For over a year I have posted daily compositions on my blog site at blogit.com. A group of loyal readers from throughout the world have become my friends but in today's economy, it is time for me get serious about using my writing skills for more than making friends.
Perhaps Helium membership will be the venue in which those seeking writers will challenge me to write for them. Upon request, I will be happy to submit samples of writing for your evaluation. The only areas, in which I do not feel competent to attempt writing, are song lyrics and poetry, essentially the same thing.

My passion is ...

Cramming knowlege about almost anything into my head

I know too much about ...

Life's pitfalls, having blundered into many of them

My parents always told me ...

Challenge yourself. Life will demand versatile abilities from you

My childhood ambition ...

To become an inventor of useful and new things

My favorite memory ...

Deer hunting camp with my family and friends

Why I write ...

I truly enjoy it, and feedback validates my efforts

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

Anything by Patrick McManus, James Patterson, Lou Dobbs

My first job ...

The other end of a shovel, in Isle Royale National Park (1963)

My best moment ...

I hope it waits for me in the future

My inspiration ...

The talent of the authors Pat McManus and Mark Twain

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Predicting major changes in culture and lifestyle

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I think that life today will be looked at as the apex of human existence by those who follow us. Our level of comfort, leisure, diverse employment opportunity, medical care, housing, education, disposable income, entertainment, etc. will slowly erode as our burgeoning worldwide population consumes diminishing resources, land, food, water and necessities of today's life. There will certainly be advances made in many things now part of our accepted norm and new inventive answers to some problems that come up in the future. I'm talking about gradual degradation of quality or availability of m...

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