I then joined the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and later the National Science Foundation, as a budget and program analyst. However, it took just four and half years before the bureaucratic life had me bored to death. I left the government and took a job in the field of property management, where I’ve spent almost all of the past 32 years, including five years at Gallaudet University as their Director of Physical Plant. Most of those 32 years were in the specialty field of residential community association management. At this point, I’m a specialist managing communities faced with major restoration and reconstruction projects. I’ve been published in some trade journals, and wrote the forward to a book on Computer Applications in Physical Plant Management. I also spent 15 years on the teaching faculty of the Institute of Facilities Management.

Along the way I got my Masters in Administration from Central Michigan University, and was married a second time. That also ended in divorce several years later. I’m now on my third marriage, and I think this one will last (at least it has longer than the two previous ones combined). Her name is Margaret, and she’s a New York City girl. No children from any of my marriages. We live in high-rise condo in Alexandria, Virginia, about five miles south of the Pentagon.

My hobbies focus on decorating, reading and traveling. I’m still passionate about photography, but now it’s almost entirely limited to landscape scenes. I have dreams of doing it professionally when I retire, but then I realize I’ll probably never retire. My health is excellent and I do enjoy the challenges of my profession.