I was born in Fromberg, Montana. After graduation from high school, I joined the US Navy and gave them ten years. The last two, I served in Chu Lai, Vietnam, from 1968 to 1969. I left the navy, went to work and to college, and then found a career with Farmer’s Insurance as a claims representative.
At age forty-eight, I joined the US Army Reserves and gave them two years. Then I joined the US Air Force Reserves and gave them ten years. I retired from the military in 2000 and then from Farmer’s Insurance in 2001.
I reside in the Pacific Northwest. I had to live my life as it came. Adventure and misadventure, one step forward and one step back. A laugh here and a sob there, but I wish I had lived it from the start as a writer.