Hi. I'm glad you decided to check out this page. I suppose I ought to entertain you by starting with a joke. Unfortunately, there's only one that I can remember the punch line to: What did one bug say to the other bug that had just splattered on the windshield? That took guts!

OK- so Joe Haldeman's joke is better: I want to die like my father did, peacefully in his sleep, and not screaming in terror, like his passengers. But I don't want to steal his joke and have someone who knows as much as he does about war coming after me.

Speaking of war, a lot of people think that because I wrote about pacifists, that I am one. I have tried to represent one kind of pacifist viewpoint as honestly as I could, but I am not a pacifist. If I were, that would create a conflict with my husband, a colonial in the Air Force Reserve. Before you get upset about my marriage to a baby killer, you should know that the people least interested in starting a war are soldiers and that my husband has never drilled anything bigger then a tooth. He's a pediatric dentist. He works for Gentle Dental.

We live in Battle Ground, a town named for where a battle did NOT take place. Captain Strong caught up with a tribe that had left the "protection" of Fort Vancouver. Both sides said they didn't want to fight, so Strong took his soldiers back to Fort Vancouver where the disgusted settlers gave a petticoat to Strong as a badge of his courage. Now the Captain Strong and Chief Umtuch elementary schools stand side by side.

We have five children, none of whom attend those schools. We homeschool two, two are special ed, and one at this date of May 96, attends the Seattle Art Institute. He plans to be an artist for CD games, so keep an eye out for Josh Foreman. (BadSpelear@AOL.COM) John Foreman (14) plans to be a game designer. You can check out his game, Random Ball, inspired by a certain boy and toy comic that has never been licensed. He set it up so you must read the Read Me, for all the good it will do you.

Many of my friends have urged me to write a book about my life, but I can't. I haven't reached the punch line yet. Neither do I know when the sequels, The Circumnavigation of Shatterworld and War on Shatterworld, will come out. When I do, I'll update this page.
In the meantime, anybody who cares to chat about living in Japan, Texas, and North Pole, or issues surrounding transracial adoption, autism, FAE, auditory training, coping with illness, landscaping, biology, medicine, the works of C.S.Lewis, Babylon 5 (no, I don't write for it, I sometimes watch and enjoy it) etc., or wants to send me adoring fan mail, please contact me at john4man@teleport.com. Thanks.

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