name: John David Brooke
age:  definitely past puberty
education: I learned enough
awards:  bronze, silver, golds, and a hall of fame
a favorite quote:   J.M. Barrie wrote:  "I'm not young enough to know everything."
  
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graphics
Started July 2006

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blogs
Started May 2011
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poetry
Started August 2004
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magazine articles
From June 2009
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stories
From January 2010
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writer friends

     1.   michael a. kechula - usa
     2.   gene masciarelli - columbia
     4.   jim harrington - usa

INTO PURE BLUE AIR is a small chapbook of poems published in honor of the international LORD OF THE WINDS annual competition of sail boarders, kite surfers, and stand-up-paddlers. It is held in early January in Los Barriles, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
CLICK:   http://www.amazon.com/Into-Pure-Blue-Air-ebook/

PONDERING IMPONDERABLES is my second poetic chapbook and it poetically ponders the age old question: what is the meaning of life? The poems are a potpourri exploring love, hate and all the human emotions in-between. Reading through these poems the meaning of life is remains veiled as it should be.
CLICK:  http://www.amazon.com/PONDERING-IMPONDERABLES-ebook/

MY MAD MOM is a first novel soon to be published on Amazon Kindle and other venues. It is the story of how a seventeen year old girl ran away with a man twice her age. Thus igniting a family fuse that takes their children a lifetime trying to defuse. It is the first The Mother Lode series of stories.