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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher (retired) |
| Location | Illinois & Michigan, United States |
| Introduction | I love good tales of adventure and mystery! Since every day seems full of both, there are so many of them to write about. Having taught many, many such pieces of literature for 35 years, now it's my turn to create some of my own. Welcome to my site. Please visit often and share your thoughts. Happy reading! |
| Interests | Writing fiction, reading, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Bears, Fighting Illini football and basketball, hunting, traveling, blogging, NASCAR, Budweiser products, black dogs, pontoon boats, summers in Michigan, MacBook stuff, Old U.S. Route 30 |
| Favorite movies | Trains Planes and Automobiles, The Shawshank Redemption, Where Eagles Dare, The Guns of Naverone, It's a Wonderful Life, Dirty Harry (series), Alfred Hitchcock, Lost Weekend, The Apartment, John Wayne, The Odd Couple, Field of Dreams, The Natural, Blazing Saddles, John Candy, Steve Martin |
| Favorite music | George Strait, Jimmy Buffett, Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Ronnie Milsap, Harry Chapin, Jim Croce, Merle Haggard, George Jones, big band era, instrumental, Scott Joplin rags, barbershop, Beatles, Dave Brubeck, Dave Grusin, Martina McBride, Sarah Evans, Toby Keith, Frank Sinatra |
| Favorite books | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Where the Red Fern Grows, Rocket Boys, mysteries and stories by John Sandford, Lee Child, Alistair MacLean, Hammond Innes, Homer Hickam, Agatha Christie, James Patterson, biographies, historical fiction, short stories of Stephen King, O. Henry, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemmingway, W.P. Kinsella, Classics of Dickens, Twain, Jack London |