October 6, 2015...PLEASE NOTE:  I no longer post to this Wattpad account. I am keeping the account solely for the purposes of following a few writers but will no longer actively post here.  I am actively blogging at my Wordpress site: http://feralchats.wordpress.com/  (on Writer's Cramp) if you want to find me.   I occasionally cross-post to Green Room at  http://gr8word.com/
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------It's been said that nothing exposes a person's ignorance and lack of culture quicker than faulty geography or a lack of literary knowledge. I would add to that a lack of basic historical awareness.


There's nothing like escaping into a good paragraph. It seems like I've always been a reader and a writer. I made my living that way, for the most part, aside from all that other stuff that got in the way.  Now I'm retired and living a single person's life surrounded by books.  I'm from St. Louis and lived the first 64 years of my life in Missouri and most of that in Jefferson City, the dimunitive state capital, dealing with bureaucracy and some folks with dimunitive ideas. But I was happy...my wife and I had a daughter and then PTA and Girl Scouts. My daughter grew up, my wife passed away and I eventually decided to move 1,000 miles away to New Mexico where I am, indeed, enchanted, more or less. There is a lot to do here and the place is mostly under the radar....a well kept secret.

I'm a refugee from Red Room. I stumbled on to Red Room back in 2011 and enjoyed reading and writing with other folks who were also engaged in writing and ideas. I write for fun.  That's about all you need to know.