Interests: I really like the outdoors, camping, fishing, hunting. I collect stamps, coins, baseball cards and others, and comic books. I enjoy creating artwork, painting, and drawing, using all mediums. I love to write, and poetry is a keeper....I have two books of poetry in print[ Red Rose ] and [ My Wild Irish Rose ], and having four more books of poetry being reveiwed for publication. Having a double bypass opperation 12/2003, and spending most of 2004 in the hospital recieving arterial stints[6], I had to retire as journeyman machinist in the Silicon Valley after 20 yrs.