About John Morris
The old boy writing this blog wears many hats: Vietnam Veteran, husband & father, salesman and techno-dude.
After my service with the Army Security Agency, I operated a sign company for nineteen years, The sign industry changed after CAD/CAM machines made the task easy enough for the non-talented. I sold my company and never looked back.
Life has granted me a life partner better than I deserve. My wife, Lyn is a transplanted Kansas gal. Her bliss is in teaching kindergarten and first grade.
I am the most proud of my children. My son lives an international life teaching English and living in Saigon, Vietnam. He is married to one of life’s truly lovely women, Yuri Kim. My daughter grew up in a small town and found her way in life means working and living in major cities like Chicago and New York.
I like getting the newest gadgets, but also I like to use things until they are useless, i.e., my last personal car was an 88 Honda Prelude Si.
I wrote a Vietnam Veteran newsletter for nine years. During this journey, I learned I like to write. It is a harmless exercise that rewards honest effort while tolerating failure gracefully. I been away from it for too long. My son gave me the blog, and it was a lifeline back to writing.
My best advice is to show the world what you can do but to accept only your opinion of who and what you are.
Update: In August 2008, my job became one of the half-million jobs that went away that month. I took the following year getting the home ready for my official retirement.
In October 2009, I took a part-time job as a saleman at the vaulted Maxwell’s Hardware.
I’m following a different set of directions to my actual retirement. You know the date.