Art - I too have selected the road less travelled, and that, ironically, has led me occasionally into the corporate boardrooms! It has also made it possible for me to have adventures in Bolivia and El Salvador, Ecuador and the Galapagos, England, China, Canada and all over the US. I am very lucky indeed, in fact blessed to have been to these places, worked with some wonderful people and seen so much of their worlds. I hope to do more.

I don't think it is the corporate world so much, as the way we respond to it - that harms us. I guess my feeling like an outsider there, like the bubble would burst at any moment and my golden carriage would turn back into a pumkin - has made it easy for me to be ready to give it all up. It has been a blessing, not a curse.

I don't want to downplay the possible evils of that world ... there are abuses, addictions and other unhealthy life styles practice by someof its participants - but the same can be said of worlds of musicians, of truckdrivers, and of farm hands.

It's a funny thing; I don't know how I ever got into the corporate world. I never intended to, and would have laughed if you told me when I was 20 that's where I may end up working. I never graduated from college. I never studied programming (my management area) and I never even thought I had a 'career' - I just put one foot in front of the other, and had fun.

After 12 plus years in the music business I had learned a lot about electronics from the sound equipment I used. I got a better 'day job' fixing computer equipment, then things just happened for me. It's been a whirlwind, but 17 years later, it's taken me far ... and full cirlce, I might add. I am back to music (it never went too far away for me, though I stopped performing for a number of years) and enjoying more than I ever did! During my whirlwind tour of the corporate world, I have met some wonderful people and had some wonderful experiences. Some of those experiences have ended up in my songs, others I'm still digesting!

Perhaps this explains my ruffled feathers over the generalizing of life in the corporate world. I must say, I met a character or two in those travels that the Mudcatters would simply love!