: About Me

All who wander are not lost.

I don't list credentials. It's not important.

I let the cards "speak." I love writing and reading- good writing. It is not necessary for me- while beholding the beauty of a mountain- to understand how it came to be. If you can write well, it will be readily apparent. Prima facia evidence. I quit writing on Helium, here's why...

Helium makes it owners a lot of dough by generating hits and advertising dollars. It passes pennies onto it's best writers. Those that write to a vanilla flavored 9th grade audience. Helium has become a trite little pollyanna community that practices exclusivity, censorship, and rewards writers with little badges and awards rather than something useful. Helium doesn't like criticism. In fact, if I could take all of my writing and remove it from this site, I would. Somehow they have managed to "pirate" copy written work.  To that end, I refuse to write for free and give the profits away. Nor will I grade writing to support this site. I hope you will join me and find better and more rewarding places to write than Helium.

My passion is ...

Living

I know too much about ...

is this really possible?

My parents always told me ...

Screw off and be lazy. You gotta a whole life time for study and work, now fetch me a beer.

My childhood ambition ...

I've already lived it.

My favorite memory ...

Living in New Orleans and watching magic happen

Why I write ...

to light a spark

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

Employment ads in ever diminishing amounts...

My first job ...

catching grasshoppers for an old fisherman.

My best moment ...

I only have "different" moments

My inspiration ...

Mike Royko (RIP), the Outlaw Journalist (RIP) and Studs Terkel (RIP)

Hobbies & Games > Hobbies & Games (Other) Costs of a gambling lifestyle

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If you are going to write something that you want somebody to read you should feel obligated to produce something that is interesting and useful. In order to be useful you must be honest and know the subject well. I've got those bases covered. I've got the eyes for this. Because if you are contemplating a gambling lifestyle, guys like me need to to talk to folks like you. I started gambling before I was a teenager mostly on golf courses. I gambled on card games like Pitch and Poker in the clubhouse at that golf course. By the time I arrived in college, I was gambling during the week in sch...

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