World traveler, carnie [see With It on amazon.com], book reviewer extraordinaire, author of three books about Meher Baba - Golden Thread and The Empty Chair [available from author] [one with Phyllis Ott, available on amazon.com] - and a US guidebook, Two Lane Traveling [with Donnie Dobro Scott, on amazon.com], numerous articles about simple living and basic gardening, Americana and Third World village life [at Homestead.ocm], song writer [Patuxent Records], North Carolinian, social worker, urban homesteader.