: About Me

The year 2012 sees my 40th birthday and I feel so comfortable with my age that I doubt I'll ever have a mid-life crisis. I appreciate just how much time and how many different things have happened to me since birth and it seems obvious that just as many experiences and just as much time is waiting for me from now until my 80th birthday. Wow!

Money and career development have been disastrous areas of my life. It is only now I appreciate what I want from life and the best way to manage the money that I have.

In my favour and defence I have never been a flake and have been in my current job for four years now. When I lost one professional job I also was not too proud to sort out recycling rubbish in a factory or unblock toilets in a private school.

So this is me – son, uncle, employee, godfather, debtor, husband, step-father, wannabe adoptive father and one published writer now intent on making writing my main form of escapism and accomplishment for the next 40 years of my life.

My childhood ambition ...

...was very unrealistic.

Why I write ...

Writing is the best form of therapy.

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

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee/ my weight/ J.S. Bach, Ryuichi Sakamoto and SlipKnoT

My best moment ...

...has yet to happen.

My inspiration ...

there's not much on television - maybe I can end up writing something good to watch

Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenting (Other) Advice for new step parents

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Now rapidly approaching my eighth wedding anniversary I am generally proud of my relationship with my fifteen year old step daughter. It has been difficult for both of us and I am grateful for her that our relationship is so good. In fact, before pursuing a relationship with her mother, I paid attention to what sort of person her young daughter was as I was sure that a relationship with the mother would not work if I found it difficult to be in the presence of her child. There have been a number of problems, some of which were probably inevitable. My relationship with my step daughter init...

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