I live in Southern Nevada, approxiametly 20 miles from the fabled Vegas Strip.  I am completely disabled from an unusual disease. I also suffer from dyslexia; a condition I now believe has been with me my entire lifethough I've only become aware of it in the last few years.  Though I strive hard to proof my pages, the dyslexia coupled with degenerating eye-sight makes my writing sometimes verge on the incomprehensible. I am a full-time Dad and have a lot of time for my scholarly pursuits and my writing.  Though I've made much more progress in the former than the latter, the latter still remains my passion and my goal.  I invite correspondence and conversation about all my interests, history, science fiction, paleontology, astronomy, Babylon-5, Dune, Lord of the Rings, English, French, Soviet, Roman and American history and politics (though I am NOT interested in the usual partisan bickering and venom).  This is my first stab at this, so I expect it to be an on-going, evolutionary endeavor.