: About Me

Mr. Ruark is an award-winning advertising copywriter, an award-winning internationally exhibited photographer and an award-winning story teller. He is also an internationally published author whose magazine articles and short stories have appeared in the United States and Canada. He has been published in such magazines as PARABOLA, ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE, MOTHER'S TODAY, AMTRAK EXPRESS, and CRUISING WORLD.

As an actor, he has appeared Off-Off Broadway, on TV in both the United States and Japan and on stage in many regional productions including the road show of "To Kill a Mockingbird.".

He taught college level and graduate level courses in Mass Communications at the New York Institute of Technology in New York City and acted as a substitute teacher for Region 15 in Western Connecticut.

Currently he resides in Maryland with his wife and works as a freelance writer and educator.

My passion is ...

Bicycling.

I know too much about ...

a lot of things.

My parents always told me ...

Image, image, image.

My childhood ambition ...

Sail around the world solo.

My favorite memory ...

The birth of my daughter.

Why I write ...

Because I am complelled to.

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

I spend a lot of time reading about the American Civil War.

My first job ...

Clearing the land for a golf course/housing developement

My best moment ...

Getting a standing ovation in Baton Rouge, LA while performing in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.

My inspiration ...

Living: Dr. E. C. Fulcher, Jr. Dead: Ernest Hemingway

Food & Drink > Food & Drink (Other) The benefits of avocados

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It has been said that you are what you eat. If you want to be healthy, eat healthy, and eating healthy means choosing food that provides real nutrition to the human body. Enter the avocado. If you're interested in lowering your cholesterol and increasing your cardiovascular health, then look no farther than the Persea americana. The avocado, whether it is the West Indian, Guatemalan or Mexican type, is an incredibly nutrient-dense food that offers some very surprising health benefits. It is high in unsaturated fatty acids (monosaturates) especially oleic acid and linoleic acid which in var...

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