I am a former nuclear engineer and subsequently a financial securities analyst. I have written everything from business plans to annual reports to stock recommendations. Most of my writing lately has been poetry (over 120 poems), the bulk of which have been poems originally used to successfully coax a young lady to marry me. More recent poems have been devoted to physical journeys around the world, mental journeys of introspection, and what ever else comes into my head -- which these days seems almost too much to process.