About Me

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Born in New Zealand and had a pretty normal childhood.

I first visited America in 1991. I worked as a camp counselor for the Summer of 1991 and was determined not to meet anyone and thereby mess my life up with a dumb long distance relationship.

After a three years of messing up my life up with a dumb long distance relationship, I moved to America and the petite blonde and I married 1994.

Needing a place to live and completely unfamiliar with Connecticut I consulted a map briefly and announced we should live in Bristol. There was a firmly voiced opinion from the petite blonde that I was over estimating my map reading abilities.

We rented an apartment in Bristol.

Eventually the petite blonde admitted that the population mass of Bristol did in fact support a robust local economy, while not being so large as to create high crime levels. Also Bristol’s close proximity to major transportation routes did agreeably place it within reach of 40% of the jobs within the State.

After a year of renting and hand to mouth existence the topic of babies arose. I firmly took the moral high ground that without home ownership I would not participate in bringing children into this world.

We purchased a HUD house for no money down and my defense against children was rendered obsolete. Two girls followed in quick succession. Later on with the girls growing larger we moved again within Bristol to a moderate sized home. We’re a happy family.

I could ramble on about everything else that’s happened before and after those events, but that’s the important stuff. The odds and ends glossed over are over a decade working as a nurse in the field of development disabilities, a B.A. in Sociology, a keen interest in computers, lots of sci-fi, an enduring interest in personal growth thinking, dabbling in writing and a little bit of travel.

Currently I’m ploughing into real estate as a career and I feel doing well at it. Real estate is a field that is changing quickly and I feel my background skills mesh very well with it. I’ve been enormously affected for the better by my changes in my housing and bring a passionate interest to seeing other people similarly helped.

11/1/07 - The story continues with me branching out and opening Athol Kay Photography. A way to unleash my creative spirit and get paid for taking photographs.

The photo above was taken while on vacation in New Zealand over Christmas 2006. That’s like boiling mud and stuff behind me. The girls just refer to it as “the place that smelled so bad we wanted to throw up”.