The Profile

I’m a septuagenarian (born in 1936) and a product of a Seattle public school education from grade school through graduate school. I was raised in a middle-class environment. I don’t remember lacking even during WW2. Being active in sports and playing in the streets was a way of life. We didn’t get a television set until 1949, too late to profoundly affect my reading and physical activity habits.

At the age of 14 I discovered the Century Athletic Club and it was a life changing experience. I’ve been a gym rat ever since and exercise still plays an important part in my life.

After finishing school in 1965 I taught at the University of Colorado, Denver Center, worked as a consultant in Kirkland, Washington and Santa Barbara, California. My final employment was in Anchorage, Alaska as a Petroleum Economist for the Department of Natural Resources. After official retirement in 1991 my wife (Laurel) and I settled along the Kalama River Road in Kalama, Washington. She continued working as an environmental consultant while I did some adjunct teaching at Linfield College and Clark Community College.

Since 2005 I’ve avoided meaningful employment and lived the good life along the river with Laurel and written occasional op-ed pieces and hectoring letters for the local paper (The Longview Daily News).I view this blog as a logical extension of my op-ed proclivities.