About me

My birth certificate lists my name as John Morrison, but I am John Doe, too.

American by birth, Christian by the grace of God. Raised in Riverside, California, settled in Eagle River, Alaska. Veteran, U.S. Army, 1971-1974 and 1985-1991.

Father of two awesome daughters, both as gifted as they are beautiful.  A believer since my youth in “one man, one woman, one lifetime, one marriage”, I find to my consternation that I have been to the altar four times- truly a testimony to the old adage that “remarriage  is the triumph of hope over experience”.  I have tentatively selected for my epitaph “Was never afraid to be a fool for love”.  My current (and final!) marriage is a testimony to God’s incomprehensible, unimaginable mercy, compassion, love, and humor.

Yes, that is a bagpipe I’m playing.  My father’s parents both came over here from the same village in Scotland.  Dad never made a fetish of being Scottish, but our family did attend some of the local Highland Games when I was a kid.  The bagpipes were, of course, impressive, and I had always thought how neat it would be to learn how to play them.  After about 30 years of telling people that, I finally realized how stupid I sounded.  “Either DO it”, I told myself, “or shut up about it!”

So… obviously, I did it, and it has been a source of great satisfaction.  I do not play in a pipe band, and I have not kept up with it regularly, but I accomplished something that had been of lifelong interest, purely for my own amusement and amazement. 

Rather than boring you with more bio, I trust the blog will give you a pretty good picture of who I am. If you think you know, you don’t. Thanks for stopping by!