[close] I'm a native New Yorker. After a good deal of failure and disappointment as a writer - most of it my own doing - I sold my first article when I was forty-four. Afterwards, my writing appeared in many publications, including The Flyfisher, Flyfishing & Tying Journal and Fishing And Hunting News. I'm also the author of the historical fly-fishing and fly-casting novel, THE FLY CASTER WHO TRIED TO MAKE PEACE WITH THE WORLD. Much of my writing is about the techniques of spin and fly casting and about the spirituality/recovery of fly fishing. I often fish the streams of Westchester, the piers of New York City and the lakes of Central Park.

Besides fishing and casting, I love reading literature, history, physics and philosophy. (I hope I don't sound like too much of an intellectual.) I also love listening to music, collecting vinyl records, watching college football and playoff hockey, and - I say this reluctantly but honestly - smoking cigars, now and then, of course.

My favorite sports hero is Wayne Gretzky. (I served him and many of the Oilers years and years ago when I was a bartender. Wayne, unlike myself back then, was so, so humble.)

My favorite literature heroes are Don Quixote and Hamlet. Yes, they too had trouble making peace with the world, so on that issue I'll never be alone.
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