Who is this guy?

BRIEFEST of AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BLURBS

Grandma Ethel may have misspelled my Christian name in her diary entry on the day of my birth, but rest assured I was born and I continue to live — these days, in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Recently semi-retired from a wildly successful career as a secondary school teacher, I stay busy pursuing various creative projects, puttering around the house, and loitering at local coffee shops while reading Agatha Christie novels.

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CHECK BACK soon for a more in-depth, painfully long, excruciatingly detailed explication of my life. In the meantime, here’s a quote I like about life on the Great Plains by Norwegian-American author Ole Edvart Rolvaag, in his 1927 novel Giants in the Earth:

“Here was the endless prairie, so rich in its blessings of fertility, but also full of great loneliness — a form of freedom which curiously affected the minds of strangers, especially those to whom the Lord has given a sad heart.”