A bit about why yet another blog has been dragged into the world? Glad you asked.
I’m a former radio disc jockey, living and raising a family and creating whatever the hell near Denver, Colorado USA. Known at various points in my former career by on-air pseudonyms such as Matt Clayton, Clay Matthews and even “The Healer” (a nickname inflicted upon me by another jock), I got out of radio a few years ago to become a freelance writer and novelist… which explains why I have a “day job” driving a shuttle in and out of Denver International Airport several times a day.
I’m 42, and therefore ripe for a classic mid-life crisis. The trouble there is, after a few bumps in the road, I love my life, so why invent a crisis? Never mind that owning a red Corvette is a “been there, done that” for me. Being the father of a 14-year-old boy and 9-year-old girl who get along with each other about as well as a cobra and a mongoose? Now there’s the crisis in my life, if any. (For the record, I’m also the lucky father of a beautiful 20-year-old daughter who lives several states away.) Nevertheless, I am about to embark on an endeavor which still could be interpreted as a mid-life-acting-out of sorts: I’m picking up playing drums again, many years after I first flirted with them (and of course, failed to score). Here’s hoping that I can still tell my hi-hat from a hole in the ground…
So I’m a guy with a lot to say — some of it worth a damn, some of it not. I’m a big believer in the principle of “you get what you pay for”, so if you like what you read (and pay nothing for) here, feel free to pay for what I write elsewhere and you’ll get even better. Does that make sense? If not, please take your Happy Meal eatin’ ass down the road… (That sentiment gleefully stolen from the chalkboard menu at Denver’s inimitable Falling Rock Tap House . Try the “Man Beer”.)
My life’s major influences, apart from my wife/reason-for-living and parents and children and loved ones, are: Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson, Jim Ladd, Raechel Donahue, Neil Peart and his band Rush, John Bonham and his band Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles. Feel free to Google any of the above names to learn more; I guarantee that you’ll find them all entertaining.
Meanwhile, applications for new influences are currently being accepted…