Graduating from UT/Austin and training in West Texas, he worked in eastern Venezuela’s oilfields and Caracas, then, in Houston, New York City Columbus Ohio, Chicago. Back overseas to Nigeria, Iran, and Arabia. He accumulated a lifetime experience of working and leisure traveling in various regions of the USA and the world absorbing and comparing their cultures, milieu inspiring him to write fiction. Sociable with overseas nationals, they confided a lot to him.