I'm retired from the Sailor's Union of the Pacific as a ship's bosun, The Screen Actor's Guild and Chevron Shipping. I was born in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Rudyard Kipling wrote Kim, and Captains Courageous. I was raised in Scarsdale New York and Newtown Connecticut, where I worked as a psychiatric aide for the criminal insane. Returning from the Vietnam War, I received an Associates in Arts degree from the College of Marin in Kentfield Ca. I have spent nearly a lifetime at sea. I'm also a retired member of SAG, having worked in over one-hundred productions from San Francisco to Burbank. . I have commercial fished for salmon in Alaska; and I have 4 published books and 8 screenplays. Up until COVID 19, i'd spend my down time in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. I'm currently living in California.