Laird Creek Scribbler
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Nelson, British Columbia, Canada |
| Introduction | Born in Minneapolis, raised on a Minnesota dairy farm, served four years in the U.S. Navy, graduated with a journalism degree from the University of Minnesota, and worked as a reporter and editor in Chicago and Detroit before emigrating with my wife to Canada in 1971. |
| Interests | Writing, reading, hiking, gardening, movies. |
| Favorite movies | Film noir (Out of the Past, Double Indemnity, etc.) drama (both historical and contemporary), clever comedy. |
| Favorite music | Jazz, classical, country, bluegrass, early -- you name it. |
| Favorite books | Huckleberry Finn for its language, The Sun Also Rises for its physical descriptions, The Great Gatsby for its form, its gorgeous writing, the stories and essays of D. H. Lawrence, stories by Henry James, W. Somerset Maugham, Alice Munro. |
If you could peer far enough into the night sky, you'd see a star in any direction you looked. When would you sleep?
Do you do unto others as you would have them do unto you?