Passed mile marker fifty.  Love poetry.  Proud citizen of USA!  Now, I live in sunny Florida!  In this country, since I was 13; my birthplace is Istanbul, Turkey; my ethnic background is Albanian. I worked in service industry related fields all my life as own/op or consultant; Graduate of De Paul U., 1981. Did humanitarian work for nonprofit volunteer organizations for many years, helped and got a piece of the iron curtain as it fell in the late 1980‘s. Numerous written works (verse & prose) published in newspapers, online journals, and elsewhere. Some awards received over the years.