I was born in December of 1943 in Santa Fe, the capitol of NEW Mexico, the only state of the 50 that (until 2010) added USA to their license plates to keep from being confused with OLD Mexico. The main thing I remember about living in Santa Fe was that we had an ice box. I remember being fascinated watching the man come in carrying a huge block of ice in those gigantic tongs. When I was three, we moved to Grand Junction, Colorado where we heated with coal and I got to watch the stuff being funneled down the chute. I also learned that, no matter how hard you try, snow gets between your glove and your sleeve and doesn’t feel good. Same goes for down the back of your neck. After three years in Grand Junction, we lived in Albuquerque — back in New Meico — for six years, then to El Paso, Texas where I graduated from high school and joined the Navy.

I served one hitch as a Hospital Corpsman, most of the time aboard the USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) a WWII vintage Aircraft Carrier. She was sold for scrap in 1974. I enjoyed the work, especially working in the operating room, but I didn’t like the Navy, so I got out and tried to get a job in a hospital somewhere, but was told I wasn’t qualified for anything in that field. I got a job working in the composing rooms of newspapers (where the printing gets done) and used it to put myself through school and earn a degree in Computer Science. I left the printing trade and never looked back. My first job was writing software for a manufacturing system, but I got an opportunity to enter the field of Satellite Command and Control, and learned that I was pretty good at calculating how many milliseconds it would take for a collections of bits to get up to a satellite and how soon I could expect an answer. I spent the next thirty years developing ground software for various satellite programs, both military and civilian. I’m not a rocket scientist, but I’ve worked alongside a few of them. Now that I’ve retired from the satellite business, I’ve decided to try my hand at writing in English. My preferred genre is Science Fiction/Fantasy with a preference for inventing Dystopias.