Steven Wheeler

Not counting the hospital in Tupper Lake, my birthplace is Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondak Mountains of upstate New York. It?s a beautiful area, and fairly remote even today, though well-visited in summer season. When I was almost six, my folks split up and mom moved my older brother Ed and my younger sister Jeanna, just a baby, back to Baldwinsville northwest of Syracuse. Mom was a grade school teacher who never lacked gumption. All of us kids eventually graduated college on one continent or another. I used the GI Bill to earn my BA in English. This paid off professionally as I became a technical trainer, then a technical writer. But I grew up loving to read, and I still do. Nothing on TV? Who cares?! I?ve always got at least one book going. I?ve recently taken to reviewing books on Goodreads, so you can see there what I?ve been enjoying and what I thought about it. Frankly, I only review a book that?s worthy of including in my library. When I completed a four-year hitch in the army, served in West Germany 74-77 as a mechanized infantryman and sergeant in a mobile nuclear missile security platoon, I packed all my stuff into a Pinto station wagon and drove to Oregon. I?ve lived in this beautiful state ever since and dynamite couldn?t separate me from it.