Last Modified: 11-4-2009

    Telling a wordsmith to describe everything in his life in one page is akin to what Noah kept saying to the rabbits... "Only two! Only two!"
    This has been a good life. Elizabeth Bacon once told me after a life reading that mine was a free life. By that she meant that this time I had no traumatic hurdles to jump or personality weaknesses to overcome. Her advice was to enjoy this life. I'm sure there will be many challenges ahead, however, including describing my life (so far) in one page. Interesting experiences to be sure.
    I honor my parents and grandparents, from whose examples I have come to be who I am. You can see their work ethic, values, humor, and many other components of life reflected in me. My four grandparents have had powerful influences on me: life-long marriages, stable families in Ohio, West Virginia, and other states. Seven of us have graduated from Otterbein College. My parents provided examples of hard work, perseverance, do-it-yourself adaptability, and love by example. Mother was a homemaker and a med-tech. Dad was a watchmaker, high school teacher, and a leader for other horologists and many friends.
    For me there was baby-time in Dayton and Westerville. Growing-up times in West Milton and Dayton.
    I also honor my first wife Barb of 30+ years for tolerating me all that time, and my second wife Liza for making me a very happy fellow.
    This life has been lived primarily in Ohio, excpet for two years in the US Army and an all-too-brief visit to Germany a few years ago.
    I remember walking to Kindergarten, across West Milton for two grades of elementary school, moving to Dayton and living across the street from my new elementary school. Four enjoyable years at Fairview H.S. with marching and concert bands playing Sousaphone, doing geometry proofs in ink, and lots of staying out of trouble (because my dad knew most of my teachers!).
    I enjoyed choirs, Boy Scouts, and Youth Fellowship at Fairview U.M. Church. A most amazing church, where general officers of the EUB church, professors of United Theological Seminary, and many loving and dedicated parents created an amazing place in which to grow up.
    My time at Otterbein was marked many good experiences -- AFROTC, marching band, reparing some of OC's clocks including the Philomathean grandfather clock and Tower Hall's bell mechanism. There were also very bad counselors that destroyed my GPA and cost me dearly.
    My time at OSU also had good experiences -- my Japanese roommate, United Campus Center, overcoming the absence of study skills, starting the OSUCC, getting married, flunking out, and later returning to earn a BSCIS degree from the College of Engineering.
    Being drafted into the US Army was good for me in many ways -- Personal growth and maturity; C&I test scores qualified me for Mensa; Playing the tuba allowed my assignment to the US Army Element of the School of Music (USAESOM) which led my reassignment to its staff, and promotion to E5 (SP5). We lived offbase, and Barb taught a year in Norfolk Schools. I worked part-time at the base library, helped start a new cycling club, and sang in a church choir.
    I like to say that "I wasn't very smart until I joined Mensa (in 1979)", and I got that way by being in the Army. Go figure. And I want to thank everyone that tells me I am incapable, incompetent, or just too stupid to succeed. Perhaps they are right.
    There were about 27 years in Marion -- Rebuilding an old house, learning many skills, inspired by Dad's experiences. Playing tuba in the Marion Concert Band and lots of enjoyable concerts. And much more -- genealogical research, Scouting, security system work, rental property remodeling and rentals...
    In August, 1983, I was exposed to the writings the Urantia Book and many other occult classics. Between September, 1991 and February, 1993, I worked on and earned my Wood Badge (national adult leader training award) from Boy Scouts of America. And in 1995, I became respectfully involved with Native American groups. My life has been enriched and enhanced by these experiences and by many wonderful people I have met along the Path.
    I have -- for the largest part -- enjoyed the challenges of life since my eight years with the Supreme Court of Ohio Law Library... stumbled around (professionally) for ten years trying to find myself, started a nonprofit corporation, respectfully divorced Barb, and years later met and married Liza. Good things have been happening ever since.