Glen Williamson:  

Life WOW! It has been a very interesting life so far, and it just keeps getting better. As my school friends know, my first name is Glen, but I am now usually known as Stafford 'Doc' Williamson. If you cut'n'paste that into Google you'll find a ton of stuff I've been doing. I am married. My wife Maggie is from NYC, we met in Los Angeles, now we live in a suburb of Phoenix called Peoria, a retirement community with minimum age restrictions. Maggie has no fondness for children, but we love animals and have had a constant stream of them over our 29 years of marriage. I have had over 50 differnt "jobs" in the last 40 years, many of which were simultaneous or overlapping, much of it what I called "self-unemployment". Cowboy, realtor, ballet dancer (opening of the National Arts Center in Ottawa, National Ballet of Canada --I was paid -as an "extra" though they actually offered me a non-dancing job!). After gradutation from University of Calgary in 1973, BFA Drama, I was offered an apprentice job with Second City Improv group in Edmonton but had to turn it down (perhaps foolishly). I eventually turned to writing which caused me to take up computers to manage to squeeze a living from Hollywood. Computer consulting led to work for Quarterdeck, where I was soon one of the top 100 (or so) PC memory experts in the world. Ironic, in the extreme, because I am constantly struggling to remember things. The writing meanwhile led to meeting a lot of "top" Hollywod types, stars, writers, producers and directors. It didn't pay well, but I made an occasional sale, and for a couple of years had an office in Lionsgate Studio across the hall from a man who would later be head of Universal, and down the hall from Emilio Estevez, a couple of top directors and the (later) president of the Screen Actors Guild. Quite likely none of them remember me now. (Not strictly true, I am sure that Richard Mazur remembers me, he's just one of those unbelievably "nice" guys.) I also got involved in xDSL (high speed internet over phone lines) and became a guru to the world on the subject of video over Internet Protocol, for a short time. Quarterdeck sent me all over the world, Hong Kong, Brazil, Singapore, Beijing, and exotic, far away Canada (Toronto). I also recently visited Switzerland for my nephew's wedding, with a few days in Paris along the way. Maggie refused to fly with me, in part because our trip to London (and Stratford-on-Avon) via Canada turned into a nightmare of 24 hours of flying a few years earlier. My sisters have recently moved to Vancouver Island, (older sister Carol has since died, Barbara is still living there) and my best friend from Bell High School, Bruce Batchelor, now lives there too, so that brought on a visit. I have published several books, 2 "children's" books that are really remedial readers for 7th and 8th graders, but delightful as read-aloud for nursery age and challenging readers for advanced primary grade readers. Anot...Expand for more