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Always Learning
What is the last thing you learned? I am in a constant state of learning and found it difficult to find a point of demarcation where something I learned stands out. I have been blessed with a love of learning. After my formal education I continued to take community college classes. My views on politics… Continue reading
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What’s your line.
What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain. I dread being asked about my work, because I am embarrassed by my work history. Of course, my shame lies around the societal idea about work life, especially men, that we have a steady job and a spotless work history. After college I was Food… Continue reading
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Irony
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? For a long time I regarded law school as my greatest failure, complaining that I was talked into it. Ironically, it was the skills I gained during that time that gave me confidence to write. My creative journey was improved because I… Continue reading
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Necessary Journey
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? Reflecting on my journey has given me confidence to forge ahead, not because I am where I envisioned I would be, but because my life has taught what I needed to learn; and I’m still learning. Continue reading
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Esoteric
What are three objects you couldn’t live without? My heart, because I need to care; my hands, because I need to create; and my mind, because I need to remember. Continue reading
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People
What experiences in life helped you grow the most? Any experiences that formed foundational events involved people. I remember long conversations with my mother about film and theater. My grandfather taught me to paint. My father taught me to fish. I remember long conversations with one uncle about religion, and my other uncle taught me… Continue reading
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Relative
Do you believe in fate/destiny? Certainly we have aspects in our lives that are hard wired, like our genetics, but much of our lives are influenced by random external factors, parents, community, society and periods of history. Certainly our core nature controls how we react to the outside world. Destiny suggests that all these factors… Continue reading
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Worklife
Do you enjoy your job? I enjoy my work now, but I would not call it a job, partly because I draw very little income from it, at least for now. I could not do what I do without my wife working a “job.” Often, I struggle with whether I should get a job that… Continue reading
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Mother
Describe the last difficult “goodbye” you said. My mother lived a long and good life, but I wished she lived longer. In fact, I thought she had many years left in her. Unfortunately, she had been living with cancer which was not discovered, because she never complained about the pain and her day to day… Continue reading
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If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why? I would be myself when I was twenty, then I would tell myself to stop drinking, listen to my heart in all career decisions, build a good social network, but with my luck, I would be that twenty again without… Continue reading
About Me
Indie author and self taught artist, creating for over fifty years, also a former corporate lawyer and systems manager … and other assorted vocations. Writing is my passion. I just released my first science fiction novel, Escape From Desolation, eBook and paperback. More information at my author page: http://escapefromdesolation.com
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