: About Me

I'm a "senior" who never stopped writing. Writing has been a lifetime avocation. Nowadays, I write to exercise my brain. I see it as a way to forestall a natural process called adult senility.

My occupational training has been and continues to be "education." I was a teacher, a school administrator who never left the classroom. In retirement, I'm a volunteer teacher at "Mercy Learning Center," a volunteer at "Black Rock Food Pantry" and editor of the quarterly newsletter and bulletin, chairman of our Parish Advisory Council. In addition, our wonderful grandchildren live with us. So I help my wife with 11-year-old triplets and their 14-year-old sister.

In addition to always having been an avid reader, I'm a past president of the Connecticut Poetry Society, a published poet, a freelance writer with credits at the old Bridgeport Post now the Connecticut Post, the New York Times and at a number of education magazines.

My avocation has been driving cross-country along the "blue highways." Although camping was always part of it, the road and the country it crossed was always the fascination.

My passion is ...

My grandchildren

I know too much about ...

education

My parents always told me ...

that I could take care of myself

My childhood ambition ...

to be a pilot

My favorite memory ...

a churchyard in Portugal in the spring rain

Why I write ...

to keep my mind working

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

as many books as can read: military history, best of new books by men and women, detective fiction

My first job ...

on a truck delivering milk from the running board

My best moment ...

any day with my grandchildren

My inspiration ...

nobody and everybody

Arts & Humanities > Writing Tips 6 tips to cure writer's block

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Writers who stumble on a writer's block and cannot recompose themselves on returning to the writing page are all of a kind. Be they poets, essayists, freelance journalists, writers of fiction of all kinds, or playwrights, a writing block is the same to all of writers. A writing block is an inability of knowing either how to start or what to say. To put it more succinctly, the writer is stumped for knowing how to start or is unable to get beyond the first few words. It can be such a miserable feeling that it has brought many writers to tears or to drink. The former is a stupid hindrance and...

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