Not that any blog-reader is particularly interested in me, so much as they might be in what I write, I'll simply point out that I was an Air Force brat. By the time I was 7, I'd lived in two countries and 4 States. Now, some 30+ years later, nothing has been added. I've still lived in those same 2 countries and 4 States - including going back to live in the overseas country where I was born, for a time.

However, I have done some traveling in my day. I believe I have crossed the Atlantic Ocean 15 times. Though I've been to Hawaii, I've never crossed the entire Pacific Ocean. I once tallied the number of countries I've visited. It's somewhere around two dozen.

Of all the things I could blog about, perhaps the one most interesting is my hobby. I like to write. Occasionally, people even like to read what I write. Of the many things I've written, two have now found themselves "in print". (OK, three if you want to count a poem I wrote when I was 10, and my mom sent into the "Children's Friend"...)

The first was a novel called, "The Title of Liberty" which was published in 2003. The second is a new Christmas novel coming out RIGHT NOW called, "The Shopping Cart Man". It's about a family that helps a homeless man during the holidays. If there's interest in hearing of the struggles and triumphs (hopefully) of a self-publishing effort (this new novel), I can blog on that...

See you in the ethernet!

Doug

Read the original "Lines of our Times" post here.