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I live in Grand Étang, Cape Breton, a small community on the northwestern coast of Nova Scotia.

I was born in 1945, grew up as a U.S. Navy brat, moving repeatedly, with formative years spent in eastern Connecticut. Took a B.A. in English Lit with a philosophy minor, got drafted, then emigrated to Canada to escape military service during the Vietnam War. After several decades in construction, boatbuilding and architectural woodworking, I began dabbling in web design and eventually shifted to a technical writing and editing career until retirement in 2010. Then moved here and solo-built a small cottage for myself. I am divorced with 2 grown children. For more on career, see my blog or for photos etc., see my Facebook page.

Notable ongoing interests include arts and literature (especially historical fiction), history, philosophy, psychology, cultural anthropology, socio-economic analysis, social justice, ecology & environment, writing, photography, food, skiing, sailing, and Tibetan Buddhism.

Since 2008, I've contributed edits, corrections and addenda to various Wikipedia pages on an ad hoc basis and continue to do so. I've also researched and written the following new articles on John Lessard, Harold W. Jones, and Robert White (sculptor).

In recent years I've spent an inordinate amount of time online, mesmerized by the cascade of shocking news around the globe, with Wikipedia as perhaps the only antidote to that unfortunate habit. While I do look for higher-quality writing and analysis such as in The New Yorker or The New York Review of Books, I find such a wide variety of of the most worthwhile and stimulating articles here in these pages, and often reflect that if I had to give up all but one source on the Internet, Wikipedia would be the sole keeper. Hence, I usually make an annual donation, and would urge all users to do likewise.

Cliffewiki (talk) 15:56, 3 April 2017 (UTC)