: About Me

As a former college president and CEO of my own capital campaign and strategic planning firm, I have spent most of my life writing for one reason or another. I suppose, if you count the fees my clients or employers paid me, you could say I was a writing professional. I am also the author of an award-winning cookbook, Help-I Gotta Cook! that can be found on Amazon or on my webpage www.ineedtocook.com

Like most writers of non-fiction, I like to tell myself I write to inform but, after a lifetime of viewing current events, I have to confess I really write to vent as well as to inform. I like to ask people to consider a different viewpoint from their own, not to change them but to enlighten them. You can always go back inside the box but it doesn't hurt to think outside it once in a while.

My wife of 35 years and I are sailors, having lived aboard a boat full time for over ten years. Now that sailing is no longer practicle my wife owns a bookstore (her 5th) in Mountain Home, Arkansas and I write.

My passion is ...

my wife and cooking

I know too much about ...

things I think I know too much about.

My parents always told me ...

I got no wisdom from either one of them

My childhood ambition ...

get rich (I failed)

My favorite memory ...

marrying my wife

Why I write ...

to vent, to rant and to enlighten

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

my wife owns a bookstore so - everything

My first job ...

making ice cream for Whitman's Chocolates

My best moment ...

see my favorite memory

My inspiration ...

see my favorite memory

Home & Garden > Home Repair (Other) When to use a contractor, and when to DIY

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If you are considering a home improvement project you have three choices, find a friend who is really handy around the house, hire a remodeling professional or do it yourself. Some neighborhoods have a home improvement social network where Harvey, down the street knows his way around an electrical circuit, or Mel, next door, is a whiz at carpentry, and Joe the plumber when he's not on a talk show, is just around the corner. Assuming your neighbors are busy with other things, or that you have already used up your chips in the social network (three times seems to be the norm without using up...

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