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Introduction	This is where authors list their past jobs, education, and other bits of information. I always enjoy reading about struggling writers who have a long history of jobs such as dishwashers, cowboys, taxi drivers, waiters, bartenders, warehouse workers, truck drivers, and so on. Yes, struggling to make it as a writer. Well, I’m surely not in that category. I’ve been putting words down for many years while having, I guess what you would call, somewhat regular occupations. I quit working a couple of years ago at age 71, after spending the last almost-twenty years working as a mental health counselor and evaluator. Prior to that, I worker primarily as a salesman after being discharged from the air force many years ago. No, I’ve never been a cowboy… My BA in sociology took 14 years from start to finish, and I have a few graduate hours in social work. Hobbies, of course writing, photography, and I’m a neophyte skeptic: And, I routinely rail about so-called complementary and alternative medicine, psychics, astrologers, and so on. Presently, I live with my seven-year old, eighty-pound Bouvier puppy. She is overall a good, but at times demanding and stubborn, companion.

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Introduction

This is where authors list their past jobs, education, and other bits of information. I always enjoy reading about struggling writers who have a long history of jobs such as dishwashers, cowboys, taxi drivers, waiters, bartenders, warehouse workers, truck drivers, and so on. Yes, struggling to make it as a writer. Well, I’m surely not in that category. I’ve been putting words down for many years while having, I guess what you would call, somewhat regular occupations. I quit working a couple of years ago at age 71, after spending the last almost-twenty years working as a mental health counselor and evaluator. Prior to that, I worker primarily as a salesman after being discharged from the air force many years ago. No, I’ve never been a cowboy… My BA in sociology took 14 years from start to finish, and I have a few graduate hours in social work. Hobbies, of course writing, photography, and I’m a neophyte skeptic: And, I routinely rail about so-called complementary and alternative medicine, psychics, astrologers, and so on. Presently, I live with my seven-year old, eighty-pound Bouvier puppy. She is overall a good, but at times demanding and stubborn, companion.