Look and Listen

Biography

Well I am best described as a self product, nevertheless with loving caring parents, though I strayed away from learning the lessons they wanted to teach me. Looking back its revealed, that besides my attempts to go it on my own. I ended up just like them. My parents are from a ruff small corner of Chicago, and they met on an arranged prom date, which lead to the birth of my sister. They got married my pops joined the military and five years later I was born, and my life literally began. Without giving to much away, up until recently I didn't think I lead a different life from anyone else. My friends highly disagreed. If I had to break my life into chapters or books some of the unedited titles may consist of; Young Love, Birds and Bees, Avoiding Racism, MVP, College Dreams, alcohol & Sex, The Military and Alcohol Sex and Drugs, WAR, Fame & Fortune, The Lies They Tell, I've had a vivid life in many different countries. I've faced a General Military Court Martial and survived with my career. I've had to look myself in the mirror after identifying myself with situations that most never find themselves in, half of which were spent in the span of a 10 year military career. Now that I've said that I must mention that I myself have never actually taken illegal drugs in the military, but I have been around the center of controversy in which they were involved which is a story all in itself. I Love poetry and aspire to complete a book of poems I am currently working on. As you can imagine the depts of which some of my true life stories go and the environment in which they take place to some is astounding. I have a couple book ideas from stories from my life that I want to pursue further, and I will be starting this new project next week. I've started short story work 300 pages or so and let some friends read it over. They say they could put it down and just wanted more, with more detail, so that’s the plan, of course I normally run into the problem of to much information or to long, get side barred on a topic. So good editing is what I will be needing which slows my progress down, since I like to edit material periodically throughout.

Inspiration

Life, life is my inspiration, I came close to loosing it many times, I've gambled with it and taken risk to feel alive, so life and everything and everyone in it is my inspiration. I meet people everyday and over time if we interact our involvement becomes and adventure with crazy choices, maybe its just me, or the life style I lead, but in my mind deep down it doesn't seem so extrodinary until I listen to people's responses or proof read my actions.