Darrell McLaughlin

To quote the late Jerry Garcia, “what a long, strange trip it’s been”. In my sixty-one years, I've worked on a missile launch crew, in the engine room of a Mississippi riverboat and as the operator of a chemical plant. I've sold insurance, advertising and other stuff, worked in numerous factories and as a counselor in a group home for troubled teens. There were the ten years as the webmaster/English editor for a  large Buddhist temple in southern California. Then there was the time spent in the Philippines as a Christian missionary. All together, it makes for an interesting, if confusing, resume, as well as a unique and eclectic writer’s perspective.

Now living in Calaveras County, California, I'm trying to decide if I'm retired, a writer or merely unemployed.