: About Me

I live in Northwest Ohio, where I own an insurance agency connected to one of the larger national insurance companies. Prior to owning the insurance agency, I worked with individuals with mental retardation for 17 years, mostly in the capacity of a social worker.

I have a B.A. in Psychology, with graduate work in Agency Counseling (completed all but a field study class, and the Masters project or thesis), and an MBA. I have strong interests in the hard and soft sciences, computers, history, the arts, and the weird, which is constantly fed by an ongoing thirst for knowledge.

In my spare time I play several music instruments (at least well enough to amuse myself) including guitar, and keyboards. I am a slightly above average photographer. I write music, poetry, short stories, and have recently started blogging and writing articles for various places on the net including Helium.

My passion is ...

Knowledge, I love to learn new things.

I know too much about ...

how little I actually know.

My parents always told me ...

It does little good to know something if you don't use the knowledge.

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

I listen to almost everything from accapella to zyedco, currently hot in my music collection is Les Paul.

My first job ...

Cleaning swimming pools for a neighbors business when I was 15.

Arts & Humanities > Internet Writing & Blogging Starting a blog to make money

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I recently started looking at ways to make money on the net, and was immediately pulled towards the world of blogging. After all what is not to like, blogging is mostly recording your thoughts on things you know about, and as many sites point out everyone knows something that someone else \doesn't know. But even in a case where you are not an expert in anything useful you can at least offer opinions. How much easier can it get, you write down your knowledge about some topic, or your opinion about something, create your own blog, or slap it on someone else's blog, and then money comes rolli...

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