Born a depression baby, I was raised in Pennsylvania and moved to Colorado after my stepfather, a B-17 gunner, was liberated from a German prison camp. I graduated from Fort Collins, Colorado HS and left home with six bucks in my wallet to join the Air Force. After basic, I became a weather observer, then forecaster. I won my wings and flew 28 missions as a B-29 copilot in the Korean War. After returning, I married a Tucson girl, Eleanor Beeghley. Assigned to fly the B-47 jet bomber, I advanced from copilot to instructor pilot in Topeka, Kansas where all three sons were born. In 1960 we moved to El Paso where I flew and instructed in the world's then-largest aircraft, the B-52. While in Texas, we survived Cuba, nuclear alert, and Vietnam to retire from the AF in 1969. After moving to Tucson, I earned an MFA in Creative Writing, taught high school, and retired a second time. Since then I've built a corner cupboard, had a mystery novel (Immaculate in Black) published by St. Martin's Press, won a Derringer in 2000 for my flash mystery,"Polls Don't Lie," become a bridge life master, and run a couple of web sites. My idea of heaven would be fly-fishing forever on Slough Creek, Yellowstone National Park, Montana.
My non-fiction Korean Air War Historical, Black Tuesday Over Namsi, is due out in August, 2008

My passion is ...

Fly fishing, flying, and photography.

I know too much about ...

Older Airplanes

My parents always told me ...

I could accomplish anything

My childhood ambition ...

Become either a pilot or a priest.

My favorite memory ...

Upper meadow, Slough Creek

Why I write ...

I'm obsessed & honestly enjoy writing.

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

Partick O'Brian novels, politics & Netflix, YouTube Oldies

My first job ...

Picking apples

My best moment ...

At sunrise, 45,000 feet over the Pacific in the pilot's seat of a B-47.

My inspiration ...

Teddy Roosevelt; Neil Armstrong, Barry Goldwater

Education > Secondary School Issues The problem with public education

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Public Education: An Instrument of Stupidity & Lies?

Preface: The author spent twelve years in an intercity classroom and subsequently taught
every grade, K-12 as well as adult extension classes, to students from every social
background. He is writing this because he is retired and able to. He misses his
students and salutes all teachers.

Of all the published rhetoric describing the state of American education, perhaps none has been more damning than this:

The school, excepting its sedulous care in teaching the basic
principles of the ph...

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