I am a retired US Foreign Service officer living in South Korea, where I blog under the name the world of cosmos. I mostly blog poetry and short stories, and occasionally a political rant or two. I have completed six SF novels that I hope to publish some day. I lean a bit left, having grown up in Berkeley during the 60s and 70s. I have been to all 50 states, and 55 foreign countries. I speak Korean, Thai and Spanish. I am married, no children.