Clicking around this site, you find out what I used to look like and how I evidently worry a lot about my times of desperation when I just really, really need a story I think is a kick in the back pockets.

If you don’t mind too awfully taking the chance, that’s what you’ll find out about the ones you can read here in WORKS or in POSTS.

My own short version, though, is that oh, sure, I’ve got four of five thoughts in my head, but the whole complexity is about an Angstrom thicker than gasoline on a puddle and so I seem to write quite a few action love stories. My male protagonists always get sucked up out of their nice cute spider hole lives by big-block, V-8 girlness.

Story theme? What’s that? Only story-telling gimmick I know how to use is bad planning and disorganization. Why would I want to write a story when I already know how it comes out?

From age six, in spite of myself, I was prepared for University by the Catholic Bonaventure Sisters of Mary(BVM) and the Christian Brothers of Ireland, all of whom infected me with a curiosity about practically everything. After graduating from O’Dea High School at Seattle, where I learned the unacceptability of the adjective nice, I attended the University of Washington(Lower Campus), where the GI Bill funded five academic years among the disciplines of Oceanography, Anthropology and Physics, before I took a Bachelor of Arts, English.

Between my Commencement down on the field in Husky Stadium and 2012, except for 25 intramurally-published articles on street-managing many of the same people the Portland Police Bureau did, I wrote only personal letters.

In 2012, as Port Commissioner Position #3, I wrote an organization-altering Draft Strategic Business Plan for the Port of Alsea at Waldport, Oregon.

At about that same time, not myself expecting or planning any such far-fetched thing, I completed my first novel - the sublimely magic Lostine.

My second novel, a prequel to Lostine, will complete itself early in 2022. (2024 note: this novel is complete in the same way you can complete a shopping list with the word lobbed. This novel does not work. It is really two stories grafted together. I will get back to it.)

A few short fictions of mine published in 2020-23 at Friday Flash Fiction, the Iconoclast, Literary Yard, Ginosko Literary Journal, Wilderness House, Cardinal Sins Journal, Wrath Bearing Tree, Olive Tree Review and my favorite, the Canadian Fleas on the Dog.

Some of my Influences:

George Foreman Lucille Ball

Robert M. Pirsig Thucydides

A.I. Solzhenitsyn Bob Dylan

V.S.C. Ho Herman Melville

Plutarch Jack Kerouac

Joseph Conrad Fyodor Dostoevsky

G.I. Joe E.L. Doctorow

Donald Fagan Arline Feynman

Robert Mason

Books I Have Read More than Once:

The Subterraneans Treasure Island

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Moby Dick

Bird by Bird Life on the Mississippi

Two Years Before the Mast Chickenhawk

Books I Collect:

Cruel Shoes