Wow! This is the second attempt at completing this portfolio. It seems that I get halfway through and inadvertently hit a bad key and lose what I've written. Too bad! I attended Drew U. with an undergrad. major in English Lit. and took several grad. courses in Creative and Critical Writing. Being that the time frame was in the mid 1970's my college education had little to do with my livelihood and the bulk of writing I did was business oriented. I've made several attempts at writings that might be published, but "attempts" is all that they were. After decades of dabbling with creative writing I'm ready to get serious.