At age 16, I was a disc jockey working at a radio station in Atlantic City, NJ. When it was time to go to college i was offered the program directorship of the network's Camden station. But I wanted to get away. So at age 17 I left home to travel to New Mexico to seek my fortune. I won a fortune all right...my beloved wife of over thirty years Olivia, who bore me 4 wonderful kids. I have another wonderful kid from my marital mistake. After law school on the GI Bill, I joined the NM State Police and later prosecuted over one hundred felony jury trials. Saw a lot while on the road and on the street. Saw a lot while in the courtroom...the insane asylum...the military. But I consider my years on the road: 1969-1970 the two most significant in my life...and they are the focus of the bulk of my writings. I am retired now, on disability. One never knows when one has written their last. I thought I was at that juncture now on two different occasions...only to find a shorter, simpler, but nonetheless enjoyable book still waiting to get put on paper. Fortunately I got all my books of epic proportions and requiring research done before disability set in so now if I write its short and simple, but lots of fun.Frankly...here at the end of my life...writing is what I'm about as a human being... it warms me when someone gets enjoyment out of it. My heart and soul, the details of several years of my life, and a lot of fun are in these books. A lot of love respect, deceit, starvation, determination, courage and cowardice are in them. I have no agenda other than to leave my children the true story of how I changed from boy to man all alone in a North African garrison town [CROSSROADS: 1969], my life on the road [ODYSSEY: 1970 and AN AQUARIAN TRAGEDY] and the somewhat novelesque, mostly true account of the year I transitioned from a stonehead freak into a "normal person". [HELL'S QUEST: 1971]. There's a lot of recent American history in these volumes along with SOLDIER OF AQUARIUS: 1969-1970, which combines both CROSSROADS and AN AQUARIAN TRAGEDY. This is the 40th anniversary of the events portrayed in CROSSROADS: 1969. I read that book with reverence. I'm not in it for the money or the fame...I'll leave that to the Dan Browns. I am always on the lookout for libraries, nursing homes and isolated locales both military and civilian to donate my books to. If anyone knows of an isolated facility whose persons might enjoy some books to read, please let me know here on this site and I will see if I can help. was fortunate to take up writing at a time that independent publishers such as mine...Inkwater Press... turn out such quality products. It sure wasn't that way a few years ago.I am also very grateful to amazon for carrying my work as well as for providing the beautiful product pages which display them. I am truly blessed, both for the benefits I enjoy as well as for the very talented writers I have met and befriended there.I