Bio

Writing about myself in a biography format has never been easy.  Writing or talking about myself isn’t uncomfortable in bits and pieces, but — for whatever reason — I have a tendency to be shy when it comes to this format.  Also — for whatever reason — I always tend to start in the spring of 1984; so why should this time be any different?

When I was a teenager, I lived in Naples, Italy, in a region occupied and controlled by the Comorra.  No shit.  If you watch the movie, Gohmorra, the beach scenes, the arcade scene, and a few other  scenes — my coming-of-age stomping-ground.  I attended and graduated from Naples American High School in 1987.  I arrived half way through my freshman year, and — due to my father receiving orders to a new duty-station before I would graduated with my class — I was incentivized to double-up on some credits, allowing me to graduate a semester early.  The alternative would have been to stay with friends of my father or graduated at a an unfamiliar high school after spending only one semester.   I have always regretted not staying.  Who knows what opportunities there could have  been to remain longer?  Perhaps I would have had second thoughts about joining the Air Force?

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