Here are some brief, unimportant details about myself, since you were kind enough to ask.
I was born in Springfield, Missouri, circa 1958, but was whisked away by my parents just 4 weeks later to Brazil, South America, where I was happily raised to the age of 18.
The rest of my upbringing - which is still ongoing - has taken place in the United States. Once here, I remained something of a vagrant (or a nomad), I confess, to the age of 25; upon which, after taking a wrong exit off the turnpike and getting myself hopelessly lost, I settled down somewhat begrudgingly in the lovely state of Pennsylvania, where I have now resided for the majority of my 58-year peregrination. (Sorry; had to throw in a big word there just to sound impressive.)
As I look back on that wrong turn I realize that, sometimes, "accidents" have a way of engendering some greater purpose of which we are completely unaware at the time. I have yet to decipher what mine may be.
Speaking of engendering, I am blessed with a beautiful and caring wife, despite the fact that I have burdened her with six (extraordinary) children - not counting, of course, myself.
I am by accidentally chosen profession a psychiatric nurse, who has only recently begun to delve into the far more intimidating field of creative writing. (That is to say, I’ve begun scribbling down some of the insights, or perhaps “hindsights”, which I’ve accumulated thus far over my prolonged existence.) I have one self-published book so far: "The Banana Manuscripts," which I neither endorse nor recommend. I do recommend my father’s book, "A Table in the Wilderness … and a Few of the Delicious Crumbs that Fell;" a humble account of his life and ministry in Brazil, to which I and my siblings have added some of our own recollections, posthumously – by which I refer to my father’s unfortunate passing, of course, and not, as yet, our own.
I have always had a beard, for as far back as I can remember.
I love storms and imported cheeses, either singly or in random combinations.
Finally, and perhaps unsurprisingly, I have not yet given up my day job.