Hello. I am a Vietnam-era veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. I am a graduate of the University of Missouri - St. Louis (Elementary Education). I began my writing career after fifty years in the bowling business. For twenty years I was a member of the Professional Bowlers' Association (not a particularly successful one). I have written three Novels: Hope Run, a coming of age novel about a high-school athlete growing up in Appalachia in the early 1960s, Hollywood Marine, drawn from, and very loosel