Welcome to my Web site!

I have created this forum to share my interests with others and, to be quite honest, for the purpose of self-promotion. Many years on this planet has taught me that we can work as hard as we want but without self-promotion we achieve very little.

However, too much self-promotion will lead others to believe that we are completely self-absorbed. So, like Aristotle, I have come to believe in "the mean"; in other words, that course is best which steers safely between the Scylla of self-abnegation and Charybdis of hubris.

We must all admit, if we are honest, that success--although requiring great effort on our part--is never a solitary achievement. We all have those to whom we owe much, and those debts should never be forgotten.