| Bio | What a long strange trip it’s been…and a little over a half of century now, I’m taking inventory of my mortality and reflecting…good thing my memory bank has a walkup window. Since the summer of ’73, I’ve traveled many a road, exploring several fields of employment that our society has to offer one. Those to highlight would be a glamorous venture into Cosmetology, after viewing a movie titled, Shampoo. I thought, what a great way to be near the opposite sex, wrong. Way too much a “personnel” service, I do hair, I’m not a magician. Next, working in the wonderful arena of retail, a music store to be narrow the scope a we’bit. Management was grand let alone all the small perks, free LPs (remember vinyl?), concert tickets with backstage passes, just to mention a few. Yes I witnessed the death of vinyl, as well as audio and video tape, which both evolved into small shiny discs that we have today. By this time I’ve moved to the West Coast, Southern California. Next in my life’s travels I finally got back to my original passion and my love of art, graphic art or should I say design, which proved to be very satisfying and lucrative, just my hands and my imagination. But I got a little side tracked by ROMANCE. Yes, the love of a woman took me back to Missouri for a short spell…I just do not like the summers nor the winters in the Midwest, least I admit that she, my love required her “space” and so, back to Southern California and by this time in history computers have become the primary tool for graphic design and I was a dinosaur, in a boat without a paddle and needing to feel comfortable living the life that I had grown accustom to lead me to blue collar employment. Yes, working with my hands and my back, sweating it out 40 hours a week. Fortunate for me an associate gave me a lead on a newly formed, small recording company that needed to add another AR person to their roster and so with my love for music I fit the bill. Sadly, the company folded only after a short run of several years. But, with the contacts that I had forged, I am now, to this day game fully employed in the financial division of R.R. Donnelley. And now from where I sit life is somewhat good and this story is far from being over too. Live, Love and Laugh…that’s the key to Life, at least for me. You decide what works for you. |
