Who am I

Like a cat I have had many "lives".

I served in Vietnam during 1969, as a Hospital Corpsman attached to Alpha Company 1st Battalion 4th Marines, other medical duties took me to Camp Lejeune North Carolina and the US Navy Shipyard Dispensary in Philadelphia, where I learned basic pharmacy.
Since I was due to return to Vietnam in 1971, I chose to instead get out of the Navy and go to college. I graduated in 1975 with a Bachelors Degree in what was then known as "Speech and Theatre".
Following graduation I worked for almost 20 years in health care doing Public Relations and Marketing. When our hospital merged in 1994 all of us with experience (and high? salaries) were laid off. I went to work in Retail Advertising for the Morning Journal.
Around 1998 my wife finished her Master's in nursing and went into private practice and asked me what I wanted to do. I told her "teach".
So I became a stay at home dad to our our sons(3 and 5) and began taking the courses I needed to become certified as a Teacher.
In 2000 I completed that work and received my certification.
After a couple years of subbing I was approached about becoming a Media Specialist for our district (longer story another time). I said yes and before I could even enrole in the School at Kent State the opportunity to obtain a full scholarship became available. I applied and was accepted and received one of the first 12 scholarship offered.
In 2006 I completed my course work and am now a licensed Media Specialist for a large Northern Ohio high school.