Here's a bit about me and some of my passions.
I enjoyed telling you about me, my loves, and my books. Sometimes I write about them. |
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Here's a bit about me and some of my passions.
I enjoyed telling you about me, my loves, and my books. Sometimes I write about them. |
When I was 21, it was a very good year. Glen Miller, Artie Shaw, girls, airplanes, Bennie Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, girls, Bob Crosby, Chesterfield cigarettes, liters of beer, and best of all, a first book of poems by Robert Service who knew the Yukon as I remembered it.
Robert Service taught me to appreciate rhymed setting with action and emotion. My first poem at age 12 won critical acclaim from my 6th grade classmates; my teacher, too. She said I'd be President someday. Boy, was she wrong. We enjoyed Big Little Books, making perfect Tarzan calls, and learning about life in the Boy Scouts.
My, my, how things have changed. Gone are the Chesterfields, the beer, and the flat tummy. (Girls, too.) In their place are fast cars, Glenlivet Scotch, AZTEC, my favorite book, and several of John Sanford and Andrew Greeley's works. Still love all kinds of music (no CW) and opera. Oh, yes, Pat, my significant other. See her later. Love smart women, good writing, old airplanes, and Morgan horses. I write what pleases me first and my critique group second. Prairie Wind Writers is a fierce bunch, but honest. I also have a neat relationship with God, who does not send out rejection slips.
Still with me? Meet Patsy J. She knows good writing and stays hitched to me anyway. Met her on a Martian desert struggling for water. Rescued, she vowed to tour the Galaxy with me. What a ride it's been!
Don't tell PJ, to the left is my selection for one of the most beautiful women in the world. I use her features in several of my stories. Meet Ann-Margret. Beauty and talent enough for any writer's imagination and fantasy. To see her in print, click on my book covers.
Here I am with a 1929 2T1A Great Lakes Trainer
almost as it came from the factory. I had to add a tail wheel and brakes
to get it licensed. With its 90 hp American Cirrus engine, it took off,
flew, and landed at 70. (A flying brick!)
Here is another fave: A 1948 Globe Swift. The first low
wing, all metal, side by side with retractable gear. The original engine
was an 85 hp Continental. The Swift was stressed for light aerobatics.
Acquired by TEMCO, the Swift was mass produced with higher hp engines like the
185 hp Continental.
Here is my daughter, Judy, driving Dixieland Jazz, a truly fine
Morgan stallion, to a top ten in the world. She also rode him to top ten
in at the same National meet. The year before, I drove him to top seven in
the world. What a thrill! After admiring him, click on the link to
learn more about the American Morgan horse.
Here he is parked out at home after a practice session. Isn't he a beauty?