My bio….hmmm, the sound of
that seems so very important, and I guess that I really do not feel that much
ado is all that necessary~.
I guess that I feel that I am
as special as I am ordinary; much as we all are. We all “shine” at what we love
to do~ some of us, including myself, finally are getting to do what we so love.
Many, Many thanks to all of you for taking the time to read about me.
I began my early life growing
up outside of a very small towne, in the country, in Upstate New York. For most
of my teenage years I was looked after and brought up by a wonderful single
Mom, who though we were financially challenged, made sure that we were never in
need of what we did so need. I couldn’t have asked for a better Mother. She
passed over into the light on April 2nd of 2011.
Thank You Mom, for
everything.
The years flowed by with my
riding old dirt bikes, working at my step-Dad’s wonderful brother Dominic’s
small towne pizza parlor…. the best pizza that I have ever eaten~ by far, which
was a full time 40 hour a week job after school my senior year, that enabled me
to buy my 1st new car, a 1976 Ford Pinto.
Flash forward to my brief
stay in the U. S. Navy right after high school, the wild band/hippie years in
Tucson, where I paid the bills laboring for masons, working for swimming pool
companies, both in Tucson and later on in Phoenix, ~being a diver for
underwater pool repairs at a major pool company in the early eighties. Then my
own pool repair business, truck driving, real estate, pools again, taxi driver, etc., etc., etc, as
the years pushed on. Doing whatever I had to do to bring in the dollars to pay
the bills~ blah, blah, blah…. From time
to time picking up my writing project whenever the inspiration prodded me to
rediscover it; as it waited so patiently, as it was intended to do all along.
~Wanting so to be a writer;
having so to wait whilst I learned life’s lessons and allowing my thoughts to
be couloured by the days that came to be.
Flash forward to 2006, when I
met the most wonderful woman that I have ever known~ my beautiful wife Brenda.
We tried doing art on tiles
using tile grout (my pool business influence~), doing arts & crafts shows,
making very little money yet again. Opening our small gift shop, with our tile
art the main inventory at first, then with Brenda’s talented guidance, growing
into a real, albeit tiny, gift shop. Business was soooo slow, and as my writing
project called its final call, I picked it back up and finally put it all
together~ the vast majority written recently.
So there you have it. My bio
in a veritable “nutshell.”
A very strange life that has
been actually many lives all rolled into one. ~One “phase” quite different from
another; all with the lessons that I so needed to learn, and still learn, as
there is much to yet experience~ for all of us.
I really hope that you like
my book.
I really do thank you for
considering it.
Stop back by on Friday for the review of Jeff Borowski's book! I look forward to reading it and letting you know about it here. Thanks for stopping by.
