Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 22:12:27 EST Subject: FILL: BIO: "VALENTINE M. SMITH" I'm not sure why Val is having trouble posting, but in the meantime... we present: ------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 14:50:36 -0600 (CST) From: "VALENTINE M. SMITH" Subject: Copy of bio text that both WRITERS addresses is rejecting ................. please post to list for me? VMS bio - updated to answer recent questions about ages, etc. of list members. I was born in Detroit, I am 50 years old, headed to 51 this summer, and a resident of Kansas City 31 years this spring, with stints over the years in California, Nebraska Arizona, Illinois and Moscow, I have 5 children by two marriages, 4 sons and a daughter - 28 (James), 25 (Christopher), 16 (Charles the Youngest), 12 (Leland) & 10 (Sara). I was separated from my second wife in the spring 1995, and currently live alone. I returned to college, for a 4th try, at age 41. In 1993, graduated with honors with a BA in Russian history from the University of Missouri - Kansas City, and received a MA in Political Science in December, 1997. Now, I'm a 5th year grad student working on an inter-disciplinary doctorate at the same college. I have been a semi-pro photographer for about 12 years. I have been a union business representative three times (for public employees in Missouri and Nebraska in the Seventies and Eighties), human rights worker for KC, MO Human Relations Dept. (1971-74), worked in libraries twice (1966-67, and 1979-81), worked on 2 Presidential campaigns (1968 and 1976), and 50 other Senate, Congressional and issue political campaigns from 1966-1982. I own my own e-mail list, Val-L, plus four history lists, now moribund but still in place. I have travelled in 34 states, six countries (Mexico several times, Canada thrice, Russia twice, plus Holland and England), written 2.5 million words in the past 8.5 years, had about 150-175 articles, essays or poems published somewhere (mostly fanzines and small quarterlies) and also am an eight and a half year Internet veteran. I have been working on a novel for three years, also a book on e-mail communications to Russia, an account of going to Russia in 1993, and eventually a book of essays. I have read 8015 books in 29 years, and own 21,000 volumes altogether. I write, read, photograph, watch films often, collect books, calenders, coins, bookmarks, and struggle, often badly, to stay alive. VMS ------- End of Forwarded Message