Larry Wood:  

I live in Milwaukie, Oregon, outside of Portland. My schools include Northville High School, Bethel College where I played soccer and Western Evangelical Seminary. I've spent 40 years working in the mental health field including hospital psychiatric units as a Mental Health Therapist. I am now retired and partially permanently disabled after meeting three distracted drivers. The first accident on 1/10/96 left ne with six bilateral compression fractures in my back, That really messed with my golf game..:>) These days are spent at the bedside of my wife Marti, the best thing that ever happened to me. Marti had a series of "about 10 minor strokes" on April 4th during her sleep. From Marti I learned the meaning of love. Music I like includes, classical, Broadway shows, Gilbert & Sullivan, The Kingston Trio and Jazz Fusion. Movies I like include Star Trek, Die Hard, The Hobbit. TV shows I enjoy include Alaska: The Last Frontier, NCIS series, NASA. The Librarians, Father Brown, and Midsummer Murders both from England. Reading tastes include history - in particular Churchill's writings, Lee Child, James Rollins, Dr. Rob Rotella, Dean Koontz, Stephen Ambrose, C.S.Lewis, speculative fiction, biographies and auto biographies, Shakespeare, J.R.R. Tolkien and of course the Harry Potter series. Interests and avocations include choral music as a chorister, soloist and director, origami as an instructor and folding for my own pleasure, photography - designing and constructing magnetic bookmarks from my photos taken primarily in the Pacific Northwest, jewelry design and construction, golf and memories of...Expand for more