A Little About Me For Those Who Might Be Interested

And maybe even for those that aren’t

Author (Image By Wife)

Well it’s 5:30AM on Saturday morning and I can’t sleep as usual. So I thought, what would any self respecting insomniac do when they can’t sleep — how about write a biographical article. It seemed like the logical thing to do — at least at the time, but I’ll leave that for you decide.

So where do I begin? Okay, I guess the beginning is as good a place as any.

Here we go. I was born in New Jersey and grew up on the Jersey shore. I am the oldest of three children, I have a brother and a sister, both wonderful people who I love dearly.

My father was a parts manager for a car dealer, and my mother was a homemaker (both are now retired). They were terrific parents and I’ve done my best to let them know that.

Anyway, I had a wonderful childhood living along the Barnegat Bay. This brought along with it a life-long love of the the ocean, and everything that comes with it, swimming, boating, fishing.

Barnegat Lighthouse at the mouth of the Barnegat Inlet (Image by Unknown)

As a result there came some interesting jobs in my youth. I performed beach maintenance at a private beach club…