about me

I began life as a child.

Voracious reading parents, particularly a mother with more articles published than I care to count, taught me that I would never be lonely as long as I had a good book. Growing up, books were of greater interest than my friends. Then I discovered girls really are different!

I've lived all over the country: Ski-bummed in VT; studied music in Boston then went to Los Angeles to be a rock 'n roll star--then had to pay the rent. Like, hey! What's up with that? I sold meat door-to-door, cars, advertising, telemarketed; worked oil fields in Texas; wrote grant and financing proposals in Pennsylvania; hung out in Hawaii. Was a staff writer for a now defunct magazine in New York, contract technical writer--software manuals--boooorrrring. Back to L.A. -- Never knew what it was that always pulled me back to L.A., even kicking and screaming. It's like I was a busted compass and L.A. my magnetic north. For all the combined years there, I never felt settled. A mortgage broker in CT. Then, like so many others in that business, fell on equally hard times. (sigh)


Now, with time to reflect, I realized I've spent a life pursuing the meaningless and gained nothing, except warehouses of experience.

Now, here I am, on a beach in FL, finally pursuing something of meaning and worth, and doing what I always knew I was born to do, but other stuff, like life, had to be gotten out of the way first.

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favourite books

The Fountainhead; West With the Night;
Everything by Nelson Demille, Nicholas Evans, Micheal Connelly, Stephen Cannell, Ken Follet, Jeffery Deaver, Dennis LeHane! Red Storm Rising. W.E.B. Griffen's series "The Brotherhood of War," and "The Corps."

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