This is me

I am a music composer who wrote a book. I ride my bike up hills when it's warm. I ski down hills when it's cold. 

Retiree who worked hard to become a music composer, something I worked on for 45 years (now you can guess my age).  I wondered if I had what it takes to write a book. I applied the same sense of pacing I use when composing music. 

A middle manager that clawed my way higher in the organization than I thought possible but didn't like what the next level did day-to-day so I quit to do something else.

Proud father. Spent too much time on airplanes scribbling short stories in my journal during business trips. Never showed them to anyone. Some are good. A lot are bad. That's why I didn't show them to anyone. Did a lot of things, research and development, marketing, sales, etc. Traveled the world doing it. Met a lot of people. Argued with most of them. Observed how people interact. The characters in the book are an amalgam of the people I met along the way.

Two college degrees: Physics and Polymer Science. Physics because it's cool and Polymer Science so I could get a job.

This was before written communication, so only memories. Some of them I put in a book "Stories I Tell Myself."