About me

Why anyone else would like to know more about me is a subject for their therapist. Mine is booked solid.

I'm a widower with two wonderful children - make that one wonderful adolescent and one adult with a family of his own, including the cutest granddaughter in the world. I retired after 20 years of adventure (it wasn't just a job) and settled down to a more mundane career, when Real Life removed my least mundane and Most Significant Other. After years of alternating depression with recession, surfing the web as a substitute for Getting A Life, a web review site recommended Jimmy Hat's web site. "Jane thinks he's original," it said, or words to that effect.

Jimmy-Hat's site rekindled my romance with the written word. His links sent me to other authors, who in turn gave more links. Next I was at ASSTR and Stories Online, and reading reviews and browsing collections. I read Celeste's Blowjob Principle and started telling authors what I liked about their stories, or just that I liked them. Next thing I know, I'm lurking on a news group (ASSD), something I'd never done because Chat Rooms and News Groups put your e-mail address on the web and garner Spam. Except it didn't, because discussions explained about munging your address to avoid that.

All too soon I de-lurked. I got involved. And then a curmudgeonly editor waved inspiration under my nose, and I started writing again. My attitude began improving, which was noticed at work. My real life is getting a lift from my virtual life, so this can only be a Good Thing.

So as long as this cycle continues, I'll continue to write. I hope someday I have that effect on somebody else.