About Me
Well, this question causes a hugh circle of thoughts-In the begining- I was
born in Motown(Detroit). My grandfather spent his whole life working for
Henry Ford and the Mercury "Cougar"was his dream/fame car. My father died
in his 40's from Alcoholism and was really never a figuire or part of my life.
One of the few reasons that has kept me sober for quite some time. My
wonderful Mother has been more than a mother to me and is quite well in
mind, body, and spirit. She lives and runs a health food co-op in Brookings,
Oregon. I was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Prince William
Sound of Alaska (Cordova, Alaska). I still live between the back woods of
Alaska and the waters of San Francisco Bay. But slowly migrating towards
Oregon, as all my imediate family lives there now. After High School, I went
back to California and became part of the counter-coulture of the 60's & 70's,
was sorta one of the original hippies. I attended 100+ Grateful Dead shows and many others. I have always had a love for travel, by
age 21, I had rode a horse across Mexico (Pacific to Carribean), lived in the
Longondonian Rain Forest and amoung the pyramids of the Yucatan. After a
few bad years, riding Harleys with motorcycle gangs in california, I came
back to Alaska and spent the next 20 some odd years, working and traveling
everywhere in Alaska, on land and sea. Spent 13 winters fishing crab in the
Bering Sea and Kodiak Is. Summers gill netting salmon in Cook Inlet and
Prince William Sound. I have worked in the oil fields of Cook Inlet and the
North slope of Alaska as a pipe insulator, tundra buggy operator, and captain
of oil spill response boats in the Beautfort Sea. I've built 3 homes and cabins. Did asbestoes abatement through out Alaska. I've owned and operated my own Taxi Cab company. I've had three major relationships, the
first wife, produced a wonderful son, now 28, but only lasted a couple of
years, mostly due to drug & alcohol use on both our parts. The 2nd wife,
lasted 14 years, raised 3 step children through elementary school on to Adulthood. Good years, comm. fished Salmon as a family, grew our own
food, provided wild game and fish, canned, dryed, & smoked everything. Did artistic projects togather, but ended during hard times, drug & alcohol use and the loss of good unity and companionship. third woman/wife lasted
about 2 years, met while both clean & sober, but her sobriety did'nt last and
went way off my chosen path....so out the door she went, peaceful and non-
violent on my part, but not on her part. Since that time, i've kept on the
same clean & sober path, stayed single, and found some serenity in life, at
one with the Mother Earth and Sister Sea, aquired dream alaskan property,
a small realty income and a dream sailboat and was happy after many years
of working very hard in adverse conditions, lived the ups and downs of raising a family and the trials and tribulations of drugs, alcohol, and relationships. Only to be dianogsted with a terminal illness and after a
couple years of mental angish and a very rough chemo/theraphy treatment.
I have beaten this illness and looking at a new lease on life, and have offered my experience and support to others that have this illness through Phil Lesh's site (Philzone.org)and my our local hotline. I am now following
my dreams, make my plans, to travel again, and hopefully to share this goodness with a woman of my dreams/a companion for life/a very best
friend to share love, happiness, work, lust, laughter,nurturing, creativity,
wellness, kindness and new experiences forever.
