Need to know me better?

What can I write on an About Page that isn’t self-serving? Wait – this is supposed to be self-serving. It is Marketing 101, after all. And, I want to sell stuff. 

Regardless, I hope you’ll find edification and encouragement here. 

I describe myself as a reader, writer and raconteur. That’s a fancy way of saying I like words. At my core I am still a Minnesota farm boy with mud on his boots, happiest when out-of-doors.

I have led an interesting life.

As a journalist I won awards for documentary and political essay. For a bunch of  years I was the guy who got up in the wee hours so you could hear something intelligent on the radio at breakfast. As a small-town newspaper publisher, when news broke, I fixed it.

I was a digital musketeer in the mid-1990s when the internet was what I and my cohort said it was. Al Gore owes me nothing. When life was tough, I sold cars. When life was slack, I built a community radio station for kicks. On my high horse, I was an account executive with unlimited potential.

I returned to farming for a time in my late forties and raised sheep, who taught me much about human behavior and more important, about the ways of God.

As a pre-teen I once eluded the US Secret Service to spy on the Vice President of the United States. When I was caught, it caused Mr. Humphrey to laugh at his protective detail, and I avoided prison time.

I’m currently detoxing from writing memoirs in favor of something more benign, like novels. At least there my exaggerations won’t seem self-promotive.

Cheers!