I have been a working cowboy, horse wrangler, department store delivery driver, husband, communications officer on an LST, father naval gunfire liaison officer with the 1st Marine division, ground communications maintenance officer on two USAF bases, department head of a USAF training school, foreman of a central telephone office, ordained Presbyterian deacon, rental store franchisee, computer language instructor at a community college, business policy lecturer at a university, preacher’s spouse, technical instructor,  ordained Presbyterian “ruling” elder, a software development team leader in industry.

I am a retired widower with two adult children and two grandsons, an Apple computer advocate and support forum moderator, self-taught woodturner, EV owner (VW id.4), and wannabe world traveler.