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My profession is actually real estate sales and investing, though some while back I decided to write mystery novels about real estate and now have five books in series which I continuously market to agents and publishers--so far to no avail. After taking my latest writing class to find out why, the professor suggested Critique Circle. I live in an area more or less bereft of literary types, so I finally took the time to research CC. While doing so, I discovered there was a forum for poetry. Well, being the closet poetry writer that I am, I dug into the bottom of the closet and came up with a couple hundred poems I had hidden from my obsessive self some years ago. Some of these have been published, but they never made much money to speak of so I had slipped into writing short stories to pay for my ink cartridges.

Being a lover of beautiful things, I admire few people more than Michaeangelo Buonarroti, who is my all time hero, and the highlight of my life will be when I get to Italy to see the Sistine Chapel. Then I can die happy. Not satisfied to be just an admirer of fine art, one day I picked up the paint and brushes and started painting. This eventually led me beyond the fine art canvases to paint murals, which is my most recent avocation, and has been modestly lucrative. My favorites are trompe l'oeils, which I try to inculcate into most of my art.
Obviously my expensive education at Cal Poly College in Pomona, California never
came into fuition, much to the dismay of my parents who had mostly paid for it, and I have been a big disappointment to them by not pursuing a career in teaching, for which I was educated.

If it's true that one comes back after death on a higher plane than they'd been before, I can't imagine how such a life could be any better for me than this life here and now.