As the song goes, "What a long, strange trip it's been." My first 'life' was in the military, where I served in leadership and staff positions in Europe, Central America, and throughout the United States. During my first retirement, I finished my PhD and became a lecturer in American politics, international relations, and security studies, a role I held for over 25 years. I recently retired from that and have been pursuing my hobbies of fiction writing (all genres) and woodworking. I am interested in social history (early 20th Century) and have begun lookling at all the aspects of AI.