Who Me?

A reader may think that writing a biography would be an easy task. Research that needs to be done by an author of non-fiction books requires many hours of focused time and countless interviews with real persons associated with the person or event.<p>The author of a biography should have all of the facts stored in his memory and merely needs to transcribe them into a book without further research. Wrong!<p>Maybe it was because of my age 82 that I was unable to sit back and dictate to a stenographer or into a tape recorder a flow of the events and influences that shaped my personality and my life. Instead I spent over two years sitting at my computer's Microsoft Word searching my mind my pilot's log book and diaries slowly eking out one sentence one paragraph and then one page.<p>Time was allocated to this endeavor on a I have nothing else to do attitude. With the Oregon rain soaking the golf course into an unplayable mire I was able to pacify my longing for a game by turning on the word processor and succumbing to the pleasure of reliving my younger days.<p>The cover jacket of this book was designed by my graphic artist son Jay to depict my personality as a free spirit and as a serious Certified Public Accountant.