G. Mark LaFrancis has been a writer for more than thirty years. He has won many local, state and national writing awards as a reporter and columnist. He is a retiree of the Armed Forces, which he served for twenty-three years in the Air Force, Air National Guard, and Air Force Reserve. During his years of service, he earned two Air Force Commendation Medals. He has worked at the local community college where he managed public relations and marketing, taught journalism and broadcasting, and advised the award-winning campus newspaper. He has been a Boy Scout leader, an advisor to the local junio...