I am currently...
...writing, hiking, or busy around the house making music, meals, or muscles* and, therefore, any rumors of my digital hibernation have NOT been greatly exaggerated. Furthermore, I've no plans to fully wake until 2021, although email is being checked and acted upon ASAP.
* I'm admittedly arriving embarrassingly late to the routine exercise party but I am now here and—since circa Sep. '17—have been having a fucking blast with daily workouts.
* I'm admittedly arriving embarrassingly late to the routine exercise party but I am now here and—since circa Sep. '17—have been having a fucking blast with daily workouts.
...still ashamed at just how easy and unhindered voting in my precinct was. Every person should enjoy the '2018 (and now 2019) voting experience I did.
Moniker and man
[MONIKER] Silhouette reminiscent of SHAW's unreasonable man admiring the acerbic wit of TWAIN, an anthropomorphized I-IV-V (rock 'n' roll) barre chord progression: simple & imperfect.
[MAN] Writer. Fighter. Candlelighter. A curious observer, a guitarist, an honest analytic, an average kayaker but a n00b sailor. A passionate explorer of life that paid his own way through university, graduated with honors, and began his career as a Certified Public Accountant, performing the rare accomplishment of passing all four parts of the exam on the initial sitting; he loves the irony given that he does not practice any longer and he calls himself a Recovering Accountant. While participating as a member in the proverbial alphabet soup gang he worked his ass off in order to fulfill youthful dreams and promise. He still works his ass off, writing and publishing under pseudonyms, and volunteering for the grassroots children's literacy outreach charity he co-founded with his wife and for other organizations, too. His style of guitar playing is aptly described as Dr. Frankenstein-esque: he mulls about his basement laboratory composing rock guitar instrumentals that occasionally come to life and wreak (beautiful, meaningful) havoc. He enjoys dabbling in the culinary arts, and he'd love to be able to call himself a sailor while keeping a straight face. He's committed to lifelong learning and possesses an uncanny ability, willingness, and stamina to linger in museums and art galleries for extended periods of time: so long, in fact, he has been escorted off premises by security personnel for lingering beyond closing time.
And, like the moniker, simple and imperfect.
[MAN] Writer. Fighter. Candlelighter. A curious observer, a guitarist, an honest analytic, an average kayaker but a n00b sailor. A passionate explorer of life that paid his own way through university, graduated with honors, and began his career as a Certified Public Accountant, performing the rare accomplishment of passing all four parts of the exam on the initial sitting; he loves the irony given that he does not practice any longer and he calls himself a Recovering Accountant. While participating as a member in the proverbial alphabet soup gang he worked his ass off in order to fulfill youthful dreams and promise. He still works his ass off, writing and publishing under pseudonyms, and volunteering for the grassroots children's literacy outreach charity he co-founded with his wife and for other organizations, too. His style of guitar playing is aptly described as Dr. Frankenstein-esque: he mulls about his basement laboratory composing rock guitar instrumentals that occasionally come to life and wreak (beautiful, meaningful) havoc. He enjoys dabbling in the culinary arts, and he'd love to be able to call himself a sailor while keeping a straight face. He's committed to lifelong learning and possesses an uncanny ability, willingness, and stamina to linger in museums and art galleries for extended periods of time: so long, in fact, he has been escorted off premises by security personnel for lingering beyond closing time.
And, like the moniker, simple and imperfect.
I believe there's a subtle but important difference between pretending and make believe. I love being creative and engaging in make believe. I do not, however, pretend! ✒
Summary (and not entirely traditional) CV
Life partner: successfully listening, negotiating, giving, receiving, communicating, resolving and advancing for 25+ years
Author and publisher: various books and stories, fiction and non-fiction, under various pen names
Proponent and champion of artistic movement (that I call New Regionalism, for lack of a better term)
Community volunteer, booster, and activist
Charity co-founder: Building a Bookshelf, a children's literacy outreach (active)
Charity co-founder: annual music concert benefiting homeless shelter (college-era, inactive)
Public speaker: audience size from five-hundred-plus to one (literally happened to me once, a single person showed—ugh!)
Podcast co-producer: Uncovering Kansas (additional shows in various stages of pre-production)
Creator of multivariate formula allowing small business owners a better understanding of their planned "Daily Deal" promotions (Note: poor execution of a daily deal (or any) promotion harms small business which in turn harms consumers if the result is lower profitability and an increase in small business mortality rates, both of which create a favorable landscape for large companies, often to the detriment of local communities)
Led strategy department for $10BB+ business unit of Fortune 500 company
Valuator of privately-held enterprises in multiple industries and of varying levels of revenue and profit
Adjunct Professor (finance, accounting, and strategy courses for masters degree-seeking students)
Regional business development & sales executive
Certified Public Accountant (passed examination on first sitting; specialized in business valuations and litigation support (now called forensic accounting))
Tax accountant (corporate and high net worth individual tax returns)
Deloitte & Touche Research Fellow (memorable project: correlational study of stock price moves & insider sales vis-à-vis announcements)
Dual bachelor degrees, graduating with honors
Masters degree
Author and publisher: various books and stories, fiction and non-fiction, under various pen names
Proponent and champion of artistic movement (that I call New Regionalism, for lack of a better term)
Community volunteer, booster, and activist
Charity co-founder: Building a Bookshelf, a children's literacy outreach (active)
Charity co-founder: annual music concert benefiting homeless shelter (college-era, inactive)
Public speaker: audience size from five-hundred-plus to one (literally happened to me once, a single person showed—ugh!)
Podcast co-producer: Uncovering Kansas (additional shows in various stages of pre-production)
Creator of multivariate formula allowing small business owners a better understanding of their planned "Daily Deal" promotions (Note: poor execution of a daily deal (or any) promotion harms small business which in turn harms consumers if the result is lower profitability and an increase in small business mortality rates, both of which create a favorable landscape for large companies, often to the detriment of local communities)
Led strategy department for $10BB+ business unit of Fortune 500 company
Valuator of privately-held enterprises in multiple industries and of varying levels of revenue and profit
Adjunct Professor (finance, accounting, and strategy courses for masters degree-seeking students)
Regional business development & sales executive
Certified Public Accountant (passed examination on first sitting; specialized in business valuations and litigation support (now called forensic accounting))
Tax accountant (corporate and high net worth individual tax returns)
Deloitte & Touche Research Fellow (memorable project: correlational study of stock price moves & insider sales vis-à-vis announcements)
Dual bachelor degrees, graduating with honors
Masters degree
