The Pillars of Education

I have 98.6 degrees. To earn my degrees, I did not give four to eight years to an institution of higher learning. Instead, I gave twenty-seven years to learning and surviving on a hostile, friendly, and paradoxical planet.

So far so good.

I have no (official) papers to state that I'm a Mac of All Trades; I do a lot of things--unofficially. That's just the way of it when Life is the primary school of instruction.

Know that I have been (and will be) many things.
Read to believe.
Let experience lead.
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The "Mac" of All Trades:

It was the Nintendo Entertainment System that turned me into a "Tech Junky". But it was a hand-me-down Kaypro II Computer System that turned me on to the world of Computing. Shortly thereafter, myriad X86s would open their Windows 3.1s, 95s, NTs, 98 SEs, and show their view of the world.
And for a time, it was good.
Then, one day, the Windows closed. I was in the fourth grade; and there, suddenly, was a Performa, with a one-button mouse, and Oregon Trail blazing on the display. But I never made it to Oregon; no, I found something better...the Wide World of the Web.

In that moment, I learned to Think Different.

The years passed, and I studied the arts (drawing, sculpting, photography), examined the physical and the spiritual worlds, and read many, many books (of leisure, science, and history). I took to the writing of poems and prose, in my native English and in the languages of the world (Japanese, Italian, French). I have lived and loved in foreign lands (Japan, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland).

[To witness the rising of the sun in another land is to realise truth beyond words.]
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I am fond of all my degrees, even if they are not hanging with pride on my wall.

I repeat:

Know that I have been (and will be) many things.
Read to believe.
Let experience lead.