While my interests have changed very little, my life has lead me down paths unexpected…a totally predictable thing to any wise man. Obviously, I was taken by surprise by these unexpected changes in my life, but I have adapted. I’ve said before human nature drives us to our level of comfort – we push for change in order to make our lives manageable and, hopefully, into what we would like for them to be. Frequently, we make concessions to our desires for a multitude of reasons, but always end up in a place of acceptable comfort, or we keep struggling to achieve an acceptable level of comfort, even if it wasn’t what we expected.

I’ve spent over 25 years now living in Florida. At first, it was means to an end. Simply put, Florida offered jobs where West Virginia did not, and at a time when I really needed one. 

Not long after putting my feet in the sand here, I started longing for