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I was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1956 to Nicholas and Patricia Grondin.  I am the seventh of twelve children, evenly split; six boys and six girls.  My Father passed away in June of 1994 and my Mother lives in Sandusky, Ohio.  Our family moved around a number of times when I was young; from Sandusky, Ohio to Bay City, Michigan, then to Maitland , Florida.  We finally settled in the small rural community of Zellwood, Florida.  I attended six different elementary schools in seven years from kindergarten through sixth grade.  During my high school years I held a number of jobs, among them, working in the indoor foliage industry.  Learning that many people made substantial livings in the indoor foliage industry I started a foliage nursery bus…

I was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1956 to Nicholas and Patricia Grondin.  I am the seventh of twelve children, evenly split; six boys and six girls.  My Father passed away in June of 1994 and my Mother lives in Sandusky, Ohio.  Our family moved around a number of times when I was young; from Sandusky, Ohio to Bay City, Michigan, then to Maitland , Florida.  We finally settled in the small rural community of Zellwood, Florida.  I attended six different elementary schools in seven years from kindergarten through sixth grade.  During my high school years I held a number of jobs, among them, working in the indoor foliage industry.  Learning that many people made substantial livings in the indoor foliage industry I started a foliage nursery business as a high school project.  At age 22, I moved back to Sandusky and worked at a retail department store at the Sandusky Mall where I met my wife, Debbie.  We were married in January, 1984 and have two children.
At age 24, with no college education or technical training, I decided that I needed to make a move to better position myself for a more secure financial future.  So in February 1981 I joined the US Navy in the Nuclear Power Program.  I received training as an Electrician’s Mate and went on to serve on the ballistic missile submarine, USS John Adams.  I served in the Navy for eight years, 3 of which were spent in upstate New York at a training facility in West Milton, training new Navy nuclear power candidates.  After being discharged from the US Navy in 1989, we moved back to our hometown of Sandusky in northern Ohio.  I was elected to the Sandusky City Commission, serving a single term from 1993 to 1997.  I elected to not seek reelection.  Today I work as a project manager for a major electric utility.  My primary expertise is managing projects involving major software implementations.
I was inspired to write because of my varied life experiences.  For example, I was a ‘Yankee’ in a rural southern school in Apopka, Florida.  I experienced a number of the situations described in A Lifetime of Vengeance, though most are highly exaggerated for dramatic effect.  A Lifetime of Vengeance is my first novel.  My second novel, A Lifetime of Deception, is completed through the third draft.  My third, A Lifetime of Exposure is in progress.