My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Male
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Author
Location	United States
Links	Wishlist
Introduction	I didn't always enjoy writing. But something happened in my senior year of high school. The teacher told us she would be teaching us college preparatory English and it would be a lot harder than standard high school English. I thought that sounded pretty sucky and wanted to drop out. I only got a C- in the course. But when I started college in the fall at Rio Grande College in Rio Grande Ohio, I received an A on my first English compostion paper and was told by the instructor to see the teacher in charge of publishing the student newspaper. I was instantly made the assistant editor and writer of the college newspaper during my freshman and sophmore years. Every week I would drive our newspaper advisor's Chevy II to Ravenswood, West Virginia and deliver it to the printer where we would go over last minute details. Nothing like that had ever happened to me before. When I returned from the Army in 1972, I enrolled in the graduate school of journalism at Kent State. I wrote pieces about my time in Iran and also about the oil politics of the Middle East.
Interests	Middle Eastern Politics, especially Iran, photography, hiking in nature. I'm a computer nerd into the whole social networking/blog/website interconnectivity thing.