: About Me

Like many that enjoy writing, and hope to take it to the next level, I hope to publish a book worthy of reading by the masses. There is nothing better to escape the daily grind than sitting with an entertaining page turner and a good drink.

I like to write late at night, which inevitably turns my work into a grammar laden mess. Doing that brain dump, downloading the data from the mind to the pages, is the easy part. Cleaning it that data and making it readable to someone else is where the science and art behind writing truly lies. And I have lots to learn.

My passion is ...

C, writing, travel, a great steak finished off with a smoky single malt scotch and a fine cigar, walking my dog and petting my cat.

I know too much about ...

myself and not enough about myself.

My parents always told me ...

did you do your homework?

My childhood ambition ...

to be a pilot.

My favorite memory ...

kissing C for the first time, and every time thereafter.

Why I write ...

because it feels right.

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

Latest issue of Invention & Technology / watching the dog and cat size each other up / listening to Lyle Lovett .

My first job ...

in high school a dishwasher, after high school a C-130 loadmaster.

My best moment ...

genuine joy & happiness.

My inspiration ...

fear of failure, abated by my love for life.

Politics, News & Issues > US Leaders The importance of military experience for a US president

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We live in a day and age where our enemy doesn't declare war, he attacks swiftly, without warning and usually with deep seated ideological hatred. In this new, ever changing global environment with threats against and attacks on U.S. soils, heretofore unprecedented, the importance that the President of the United States have military experience should be heavily weighed as an important factor during his tenure. Where the traditional warfare of yesteryear is gone and the standoffs between superpowers a memory, this experience, if at the very least, should be to know what it is like to hold,...

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