Reb Bacchus:  

Life Not much to write, I retired at 44, and have been doing volunteer work. Mostly as a chaplain at a maximum security prison. I've just had a publisher agree to read my first novel... the first two levels of readers liked it, but who knows what will happen. I'm not a writer, but my wife has done a very good job of fixing what I've written. The publisher is the second largest of the genre (science fiction) so it will probably die on his desk. Still, I had fun writing and working with my wife on a project like this. Update: The Publisher (Baen) died with the book on his desk... I'm not sure what that says, but one day I'll get around to sending it out again. I spend a lot of time watching my daughter chase a soccer ball. She was all-state in high school and is in her last year of her college scholarship. Update: I'm not sure where I failed, my daughter is now married to a Marine office and is a spy (works for the DIA) and both are headed to the 'Stan... one day I'll learn to spell that place. I'm getting to know my first grandchild a boy of nine months. Grand kids seem to be all they're cranked up to be. He, my son and daughter-in-law, live about five minutes from our house, but my wife of 35 years think...Expand for more