: About Me

I was born in Beth-El Hospital, Brooklyn, New York in December of 1938. I am the youngest of three children born to Christine and Henry Smith, whose residence at the time was on Glenwood Road, in the town of Canarsie, in the borough of Brooklyn.

My siblings, Harry and Dorothy, were, respectively, 14 and 7 years of age at my birth. Consequently, or so I learned during my developmental psych class in college, I was an only child. And that was ok; I lived in a world that I created which included characters I invented and, figuratively, flights of fancy using the model airplanes I had built.

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My passion is ...

writing, reading, woodworking, gardening

I know too much about ...

pain, as a result of an inherited rheumatoid factor

My parents always told me ...

to be like my brother (rather than be myself)

My childhood ambition ...

to be a farmer

My favorite memory ...

my first wildflower garden

Why I write ...

to share what I know and care about

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

whatever interests me at the moment

My first job ...

Bookmobile chauffeur for the Queens Borough Public Library

My best moment ...

when I was discharged-honorably-from the Army

My inspiration ...

my wife

Home & Garden > Home & Garden (Other) How to cut air conditioning costs

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How to save money and keep your home cool this summer. I thought I’d share this with the readership long before the summer months begin so that you can plan on using this method the first time you want to cool your home.  I’ll start with an overview of my home’s heating and cooling system. We live in the northeastern United States and, although it doesn’t get hot here as it does in the southern states, when my body starts to feel the temperature get up to 85 degrees and higher, our thicker, northern blood reacts and the perspiration begins to flow. Our home has...

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