About Me

This is a little bit about me, who I am and some of the reasons I decided to start blogging.  I have been around for some time, doing many different things.  In "past lives" I have been a busboy, a cook, a firefighter in the Forest Service.  I have worked in the mining business, banking, and health services arena.  

I grew up as an Air Force brat, living in places like Turkey, Germany and all over the US. While living in Germany I was fortunate enough to travel all around Europe when my father took time off from work. When I was exploiting Mother Earth's natural resources in the mining business, I worked in Chile for a few years and have been in a few South American countries mainly working but playing tourist when I could. 

I have had the opportunity to visit many wonderful places and meet some incredible persons during my adventures.  I hope to make use of these experiences and share in this blog some of those fortunate times. 

Just like many of you my experiences in the last few years have left me, let's just say opinionated, albeit sometimes not pleasant, but a lot of us are going through many different emotions in these recent politically charged times.  

I am determined to write about less disruptive things, however I do have a political section which may make you laugh at me, laugh with me, cry with me, yell at me or again yell with me. While I will contribute to the political section from time to time, I will be primarily focused on other more pleasant subjects. This blog is inspired from out of my life journeys. I love wine, food, outdoors, family, people and yes, work. Some of these subjects, I will start writing to record a specific experience or journey. Other subjects may just be opinions about a dining experience, or an event, like a music concert or movie.  I am not sticking to a specific theme on which I am reflecting on or dwelling over.  I have no special talents around writing but I know that I will share honest and open opinions, experiences, thoughts and maybe, just maybe keep your interest enough to get your thoughts and opinions reflected back!

As a visitor here, I hope for you to be a part of a fantastic community. I want to hear how I may have influenced your story, provided answers to questions you may have had. I would hope that this experience will add to my foundation of who I am.  I am always thankful to have diversity in my life from the people I meet and converse with, accepting this diversity has always guided me to learn and love people no matter how different we are.

Thank you so much for being part of this community. There will be plenty of ways that you can become more involved, but for now click on the Subscribe Now button and feel free to comment and contribute to the thoughts of this community.