skip ward: I grew up in a rural Kansas community of about 300 population. No street signs or paved roads, no police, no TV, a small, two-story school building for grades 1-12...1-6 on the 1st floor, 7-12 on the 2nd floor. (There were only 5 rooms up there.) After graduation from High School in a class of 10, I served 3 years in the Army, mostly as an announcer with Armed Forces Radio in Korea. After that, I worked as a disc jockey to pay my way through McPherson College in Kansas (BA English) and went to Brown U. in Rhode Island on a fellowship (MA English). I've held executive positions with daily newspapers in North Carolina, Kansas, and North Dakota and have taught at a college in Florida: English Comp, American and English Lit, and Speech and Communication. I love life, the people, places, and experiences that have inspired my art. I like writing about psychological conflict with a little humor and, sometimes, a touch of fantasy. Someday I may learn how to write poetry. Now that I'm of retirement age and realize that life sure went by kind of fast, I think of Yogi Berra's comment that "it gets late early out there." Lucky for me, I get to grow old with the finest person I've ever known--my wife, Di. |
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