Author of 12 ESL textbooks for China, various magazine artless on food and beverage, past regular weekly newspaper column, been swimming 200 miles off the east coast of Nova Scotia, worked 1 mile underground in Thompson, Manitoba, practiced emergency first ad in a pressure chamber set at 1,000 feet underwater, did "daisy-chain" jump from airplane, had an emergency bail-out at 500 feet when aircraft caught fire, was fired on by Canadian navel guns in Halifax harbor - rounds landed close enough to count the fins as they hit the water, near my schooner. Made an attempt at the worlds single outboard speed record at Devils Lake Oregon when I was 17. Raced [drag] a custom Dodge Dart, Suddenly, in the Pacific Northwest. Was part of the team that cooked for the Queen of England when she visited Toronto, rode bucking horses at small rodeos in Texas, Could shoot a thrown aspirin out of the air with a BB gun or take the fire off the end of your cigarette at 20 feet with a pistol, Designed and built a "self hooking" fishing lure. Built my first car [Fiat 600] from parts my dad brought home in the back of the pick-up.... took 2 years to finish... and would do 93 mph in the 1/4 mile drags.