: About Me

I am a retired geologist specializing in Economic Geology. Also I was a licensed commercial pilot for both airplanes and helicopters. One of my favorite past times is fishing. My friends call me a walking encyclopedia in fact I read the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica from cover to cover. Aside from geology I am more then capable of jumping into other subjects with a certain amount of knowledge. For twenty-five years I ran an environmetal consulting firm specializing in Environmental Assessments and Remediation Projects. I came into geology later in life then many other people, I didn't finish until my forties. Literally I paid for my education as a commercial helicopter pilot.

In my late twenties and early thirties I spent six years in the Arctic working for an exploration geology firm as a bushpilot.

One might say I have a rather rounded background, well time will tell.

My passion is ...

Making money, and spending it.

I know too much about ...

Environmental messes, and remediation of the same.

My parents always told me ...

I would wreck my wife in three days after marrying her

My childhood ambition ...

To be a miner or to own a mine. I did!

My favorite memory ...

When I told my father that I was in Grand Central Station instead of cutting brush in the backlot.

Why I write ...

I don't want to be the smartest corpse in the graveyard, besides that it pays.

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

End of a Dream from the movie "Total Recall."

My first job ...

Building machinery

My best moment ...

When my father hit 30,000 feet without an airplane when I told him I was in Grand Central Station.

My inspiration ...

My Great-Grandfather who came to America from Nova Scotia because he didn't want to be the guest of honor at a necktie party arranged by the queensmen for illegally mining gold on the Queensland. He later became an iron miner at the Tilly-Foster mine in Brewster, NY. Then he went on to quarry marble for the Connecticut Capitol Building. He then started his own stone masonary business retiring in the early 1900's. He was responsible for many stone structures throughout Northwestern Conn.

Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Where were you on July 20, 1969, when astronaut Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon? What do you remember of that day?

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I had just arrived at Quechee Gorge on US Rt. 4 in Vermont where we stopped to have lunch and do some shopping. The car radio was full of coverage about the moon landing. After lunch my wife went poking into a store that sold yardgoods, and I went wandering into some of the other shops. The last shop I visited was a gift shop where they had a television set turned onto the moon landing. It hadn't happened yet, but was about too. I stayed in the giftshop while the moon lander landed on the Moon. Buzz Aldrin announced that the Eagle had Landed. After that I left the store and walked over to ...

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