Father of ten and grandpa to fourteen and still fairly lucid. My wife's influence kept me working as a Licensed Master Plumber for 50 years when I really wanted to be a lawyer. The fact that she purchased all food in Jumbo and Family Size to feed ten kids, kept me at the plumbing trade, since it paid better then law.     My weekly sessions on the couch were my newspaper columns entitled Funny Side Up, which kept me busy nights for the last twenty of the forty five years doing plumbing. My head was either in my typewriter or under a clients sink. Publications include: a dozen articles in Popular Science Homeowner's How-To; Liberty, Good News,(2) Good Reading (2) Sunshine (2) Lutheran Digest(2) Dana'a Literary Society On-line Journal (2) Natural Health Magazine (March 2002 issue)Homeopathy Today (June 2002) Successful Contractor's Magazine (2) enabledonline.com,  American Homeopath  (2005), a filler in Reminisce and well over dozen weekly newspapers.     We are grateful for our book Broken Glass And All  being  in 6 countries (only one or two in each) Publishers and agents told us we would be lucky to sell 100 copies of such a book. Pod/Vanity Press' says 200 would be doing well. We are over  400.  Not a Best Seller, but reaching those in need, which is why it was written: to give hope and encouragement. Funny Side Up, our humorous anthology of a newspaper column, is like-wise doing well on the net: 450 in two printings. Not bad for a plumber, turned hack.The boys in da hood think it's cool. Not only can a kid from East Harlem read, he's written two books!

Received a bronze plague for Bravery in Battle while raising ten kids. Completed a book on the subject, that most sadistic readers believe to be hilarious. What is funny about raising ten kids; a dog the size of a pony, a bird, a cat who drinks from a fishbowl,and two gold fish named "Dinner" and Dessert" all crowded into a small four bedroom house with only two baths?