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Biography

I am a native of Little Rock, Arkansas, born in the wanning days of the Eisenhower administration, having shared the womb with a twin sister.   My parents were older than my peers', having been adults in the Great Depression.

There was no single significant event occuring in my life as I was on hand for The Cuban Missle Crisis; The Kennedy, King, Kennedy assassinations, Vietnam, the 1968 election; the moon walk; Watergate; the Challenger and Columbia space schuttle diasters; the 2000 election, September 11, 2001, the 2008 election. My father saw all of this plus two world wars, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, and the introduction of sulfonamides and penicillin, so, I don't know as much as I think.

Professionally, I am a pharmacist / clinical data analyst, having worked the the pharmaceutical industry for the past 25 years. As an avocation I am a writer principally focusing my attention on music but occasionally branching out to address  media, cinema, literature, politics, and religion.  We a blessed to live in a fertile and progressive period where all culture is readily available to consideration and consumption.  Steering these waters is challenging but ultimately rewarding.

I am married to my wife Dana and have one son, Logan, in both of whom the sun rises and sets.  Collectively, we have three dogs and three cats: Two Pomeranians, Bixley and Miller; and a Wal-Mart Chiuhauha, Molly and three Tabbies: Nermal (gray, shorthair), Fletcher (red, shorthair), and Stranger (gray, longhair with a touch of Maine Coon and a bad disposition).

My musical interests include popular music of the 1965 to 1975 period (one I indulge by listening to Radio Vietnam); small combo acoustic jazz from 1945 to 1965, specifically Miles Davis on the East Coast and Art Pepper on the West Coast; and  classical music, specifically 18th Century clarinet music from the Classical Period of Haydn, Mozart, Stamitz, and Krommer.

My favorite popular recording remains Little Feat's
Waiting For Columbus, Lowell George may have tinkered too much with the engineering, but he did achieve near-perfection.

My favorite jazz recording is Miles Davis'
The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions. It may be old school, but what an old school!

My favorite "classical piece" is Handel's
Messiah.  GFH was a too big (in reputation and girth) mover and shaker in 18th Century England to be remembered for one composition, but if it had to be just one, let it be this one.
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