ME

Welcome to all who've come to visit me here. Thanks for taking the time, and I hope you enjoyed any of the stories which might have led you here. I live in Western Massachusetts, though I'm a California boy originally. I enjoy writing, but I wish I had more time for it. Of course, a lot of my time is devoured by my regular perusal of the works of the hundreds of talented authors on this site. On that point, I'd like to thank them all for their hard wrok, and for the hours and hours of great entertainment they've given me. My primary focus, both for writing and reading, is NCIS, but I've dabbled in dozens of other shows as well. Of late, Castle has become my new MUST WATCH show. It is coming around the backstretch and gaining on NCIS.

I'd like to also take a momeent to thank all those who've posted reviews, or sent private messages regarding the stories I've posted. I'm not a massive review hound, but still, it is always nice to have someone let you know they enjoyed your work. When I'm reading someone else's stuff, with regularity, I try to post at least one review for every 4-5 chapters, if not more. Of course, like everything else, this requires the time and energy to do so. I wish I was a bit more assiduous in that area. I also appreciate negative reviews. I am not afraid of flames, and looking at it realistically, that is how I know when I really need to work on something within my writing, when people point out where I mis-stepped. So, thanks to those who've told me I'm not very good. With any luck, I've gotten better since you last reviewed.

I cannot recommend the following authors highly enough: Cara T. Jacklin (Especially "Just for the Weekend"), Enthusiastic Fish (especially "Death and Destruction, The Crying Man, & Double Vision"), and The Fabulous Mrs. Cole Turner (especially "Cross Jurisdictions & Secrets Revealed"). If you have the time and the inclination, read them! You won't regret it. Another excellent storyteller is Sashile, her ongoing story arc "Of Jews & Gentiles", "Secrets & Covert Lies" & "Consequences of Love & War" is OUTSTANDING work.

In addition to writing stories for NCIS & other shows on this board, I've recently completed a book of poetry, tentatively titled "Reflections on the Pond", which I hope to find a publisher for soon. Keep you fingers crossed for me, or better yet, let me know if you can help. I have no real idea how to go about it yet. I'm also working on several novels, various subjects, all of which are in various stages of completion. Just the other day, I worked out the basic ideas behind a project I will soon begin writing, with a friend, a screenplay for a western film.

FAVORITE SHOWS (will continue to add to this list as more come to me)

NCIS, Big Bang Theory, Bones, Criminal Minds, Mentalist, , Burn Notice, Smallville, Law & Order: SVU, House MD, How I Met Your Mother, Jesse Stone (series of TV movies), Castle, Good Wife, Psych, Justified, Royal Pains, In Plain Sight, Rozzoli & Isles, Covert Affairs, White Collar

FAVORITE SHOWS NO LONGER ON TV (will continue to add to this list as more come to me)

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, West Wing, Crossing Jordan, Women's Murder Club, Las Vegas, STNG, Boston Legal, Alias, JAG (I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch), Spenser for Hire, Magnum PI, Friends, Seinfeld, Mad About You, MASH, Firefly, Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles, The Unit, ER, Battlestar Galactica, LOST, 24, Scrubs, Law & Order, Cold Case

CROSSOVERS / STORIES I'D LOVE TO SEE / READ (if you've read or written any such things, please PM me and tell me where to find them)

NCIS & Bones, Criminal Minds, Cold Case, Mentalist, WM Club, JAG, Castle, Psych, In Plain Sight, Burn Notice, Justified (or any combination of these possibilities)

House & ER or Scrubs

SHIPS

Shipping is not usually the primary focus of the stories I write, though in some cases, it will be layered within. It is hit or miss as to whether a Favorite Story I read is centered around, or includes as a major component, a ship. Plot is a better hook for me than a ship. However, I can be a fan of any of the following ships, if they are well done:

NCIS- Tony & Ziva, Tony & Kate, Kate & Gibbs BONES- Booth & Bones, Hodgins & Angela BIG BANG THEORY- Leonard & Penny

MENTALIST- Jane & Lisbon, van Pelt & Rigsby BSG- Helo & Athena BURN NOTICE- Michael & Fiona SMALLVILLE- Lois & Clark CASTLE- Rick & Kate

FAVORITE AUTHORS

Robert Jordan (RIP), JRR Tolkein (RIP), Robert B Parker (RIP), James Patterson, Nicholas Sparks, John Grisham, Raymond Feist, Dan Brown, Tom Clancy

FAVORITE POETS

Robert Frost, George Gordon Lord Byron, William Shakespeare, AE Hausman, Robert Burns, Edmund Spenser, William Blake, Dana Gioia, William Wordsworth, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Lord Tennyson, WS Gilbert, Rudyard Kipling, Christina Rosetti

AN ORIGINAL POEM FROM MY BOOK

The Beat of My Heart

Chris-tine, Chris-tine, Chris-tine.

Your name rolls off my lips

Like the crest of a breaking wave,

Never twice exactly the same,

Yet comforting in the similarity

Of the beauty and form of each.

Chris-tine, Chris-tine, Chris-tine.

I need only say it aloud to myself,

And I find that my burdens ease.

I find that my smiles last longer,

My heart seems to rise up,

And I feel as though I could fly.

Chris-tine, Chris-tine, Chris-tine.

I don’t see how any man

Could spend even an hour with you

And fail to see what I see,

A young, intelligent, beautiful woman,

Like no other on Earth.

Chris-tine, Chris-tine, Chris-tine.

It is one word, two syllables,

Simple, yet elegant, quiet, yet thunderous,

Like a drum which matches the beat of my heart.

Thrum-thrum, thrum-thrum, thrum-thrum.

Chris-tine, Chris-tine, Chris-tine.

FAVORITE MOVIES

American President, Dave, Casablanca, As Good As It Gets, Bad Boys, Hitch, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Bourne films, Caddyshack, Count of Monte Cristo, Bond films (most, but not all), Few Good Men, Under the Tuscan Sun, Stargate, Tears of the Sun, An Unfinished Life, Basic, Iron-Man, Fish Called Wanda, Rising Sun, Unforgiven, Fistful of Dollars, Few Dollars More, Spider-Man 1&2 (Spider-Man 3 does not exist), Memoirs of a Geisha, Outlaw Josey Wales, Air Force One, Fugitive, Groundhog Day, Hunt for Red October, Wimbledon, Grosse Point Blank, Holiday, Raiders of the Lost Ark, IJ & the Last Crusade, Shawshank Redemption, Pale Rider, Jack & Sarah, Poodle Springs, Kiss Me Goodbye, Appaloosa, Godfather 1&2, Last Samurai, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar Liar, Ocean's Eleven & Thirteen (13 mainly just for the cast - the plot was only fair), Magnificent Seven, Message in a Bottle, Open Range, National Treasure, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Being There, The Rock, 13th Warrior, True Lies, What Women Want, Braveheart, When Harry Met Sally, My Cousin Vinny, Born Yesterday, National Lampoon's Vacation, Traitor, Terminator, Terminator 2, Die Hard, Hustler, Take the Lead, Pirates of the Caribbean, January Man, Mallrats, Instinct, Michael, Multiplicity, Silverado, Sleepless in Seattle, Thomas Crown Affair, Transformers, Green Mile, Grease, City Slickers, Princess Bride, Cutting Edge, Better Off Dead, Renaissance Man, Tin Cup, The End, Gettysburg, Breakfast Club, Time to Kill, Last of the Dogmen, Pretty Woman, Fracture, Fools Rush In, Usual Suspects, Midnight Run, Save the Last Dance, Coming to America, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Blues Brothers, Trading Places, Speed, Sniper, Old School, Grumpy Old Men, Frequency, Natural, Untouchables, Ronin, Running Scared, Blazing Saddles, Robin Hood: Men In Tights, History of the World: Part I, Cocktail, For Love of the Game, Necessary Roughness, We Are Marshall, In the Line of Fire, Willow, Austin Powers, Undercover Blues, Last Boy Scout, Dangerous Beauty, Serenity, Broken Trail (Fantastic Mini-Series on AMC -- Robert Duvall western -- my new favorite), Sherlock Holmes (2009 vesrion), Maltese Falcon, Finding Forrester, Man Who Would Be King, After the Sunset, Desperado, Maverick, Lethal Weapon series, Midnight Run, I Am Legend