For many years I have worked behind the scenes promoting goodwill and discussing various related topics on different websites. My anonymous work was primarily an effort to keep focus on the topics and not my personal life. So it is not without careful consideration that I now find myself writing this bio. Perhaps writing a few lines about me personally might give you an idea why I am so passionate about promoting goodwill.

It would be an understatement to say my life has been filled with variety; events that span the gamut of both enjoyable and disastrous experience. I have soared to the highest heights imaginable, and trodden the deepest valleys of despair. There are some things I hope to never experience again, but I wouldn't give up the lessons learned and the wisdom gained for anything in the world! I stand humbled before you, ready to share some of the wisdom I have garnered in my time thus far on this planet.

As far back as I can remember I have had the urge to help others. In Vietnam my job as a young Marine was to help villagers improve their life. I helped provide community services such as teaching English and building sanitary facilities. I also delivered dead children in body bags to their parents...you see, I was an interpreter. Tears fill my eyes 40 years later as I write and remember some of these events. I could write many stories about this time in my life, but I never have. It would cause me to recall things such as the time I witnessed young Marines standing in the back of a truck throwing cans of rations AT children standing alongside the road as they went by, laughing like it was great fun. No matter how you look at it, war is a terrible experience for everyone involved!

I have been wealthy and I have been poor. At the time of this writing I am unemployed. Needless to say finances are difficult. Many years ago I underwent an experience that left a bad taste in my mouth regarding money, but of course I need it like everyone else to pay my living expenses. I had to close some companies due to the market and file bankruptcy.  Many people were hurt emotionally and financially. Attorneys got rich from the assets. Everyone went after my assets like piranha to a cow carcass. I lost everything - my job, my possessions, my status in the community and my wife. This hurt on a level and in a place I could never begin to explain with mere words. The greed, hatred, anger, racism and violence I witnessed during this period will never fade from my memory. It was also during this time I had a major heart attack. I wasn't expected to live and there was considerable muscle damage...but here I am. I began to write during these difficult days, as well. I have self published 3 books and have a couple more near ready.

I specifically reference these two time periods due to their strong influence during the following years. Along with these there has been one extraordinarily high point in my life.  This experience was intensely personal. Perhaps more than anything it was this event, spiritual in nature, which has set me on my present path of promoting goodwill.

I have lived in China recently, and elsewhere. Putting governments and national rhetoric aside it has always been my experience that people are people. People are innately good at heart. They struggle, they laugh, they cry, they love and they spend their life searching and reaching for that intangible something that will make them happy, safe and secure. I have witnessed way too much of man's inhumanity to man. I have held children while they died a horrible death. I have watched the smiles and enjoyed the laughter of children whose legs had been blown off; their bodies completely burned, but happy in the moment, some weeks after the incident. Your fellow man is an incredible being. He/she is your brother/sister in truth, for humanity is ONE big family.  They all deserve our help and respect.

War must end! The trend toward hatred, violence, racism and anger must be curtailed! Right Human Relations must be established among all peoples and nations of the world. This site is dedicated to these goals.

I don't have any desire to seek money. And until I leave this world it will be my mission to discuss, educate, and do everything within my power to promote goodwill. Will you join me?

Be with us!

Bio continued (written 2/17)

Nine years have passed since this bio was first posted! Wow, time flies! And so much has happened, both positive and negative experience.

A couple of years after writing the above I became homeless and lived in a tent out in the woods. Another veteran helped me get out of that situation and gradually my life began to improve and today find myself, all things considered, in a much better place.

I have spent a lot of time in Vietnam these past few years. In fact, I wrote my memoirs while there and I am more convinced than ever about the innate goodness of man...the Oneness of the human family. But I'm not a great writer - English was always my worst subject. Still, writing about my experience during the Vietnam War was important to me, and hopefully it has helped others as well, especially those that haven't served during wartime understand veteran's issues better.

And since writing my memoirs I have undergone 2 hernia operations and been hospitalized with various heart issues. Another stent was added in 2013 and then just 3 months ago I had another major heart attack and died twice (from the dense physical point of view), resulting each time in being zapped a couple of times to return me to my body. A rotor-router of an artery, a couple more stents, and I am still here. Although lots of heart tissue has died during these heart incidents over the years I am still able to function, though not up to the level I would like. For many years I have wanted to open a spiritual study and meditation center near a major city on the west coast, but the financial requirements have been far beyond me. Not sure I could do so anymore, even if the opportunity arose. Be that as it may, I still have a fervent desire to reach out to all those possible and share how rich the possibilities are utilizing the potent power of the energy of goodwill.

I have done a lot and experienced more than most in this life and the one thing I believe in without a doubt is the promotion of goodwill. Goodwill isn't a passive energy. It must be consciously utilized and demonstrated by all those willing to share their heart's love with others of the human family, no matter where they find themselves in life.

Again, will you join me in this active pursuit? There are already many doing so!

Be With Us!