What a rodeo! I always enjoyed writing and was encouraged to do so, but I took my male side of the family's direction and made a career in the oilfield, retiring from BP America thirty years later.
As fate would have it, I was given the opportunity to actually write for a living the last four years of my employment. As a Reliabilty Coordinator I wrote mechanical integrity programs including operating and repair procedures for oil field equipment. After retirement I was hired as a consultant and wrote field operator skills assessment guides and helped write an apprenticeship training program. All that was fun but not nearly as fun as creative writing and freelance story telling.
I learned in the sixth grade that I could make people laugh with a pen. Then, as I matured in my writing, I found that I could also make people cry if I wanted to. Is that cool or what? But can I actually write something worth publishing? I needed inspiration. So, I took a line from a psychology course I suffered through in college, turned it around and made it my motto. It read: "Never allow reality to become subordinate to possibility." My motto: "Never allow possibility to become subordinate to reality."
So here I am. If you dont like me, I will find a way to make you like me.
