Mother, brother & neighborhood 'friends': enemies to the end, but I never knew why?  Thank the gods I had ‘myself.’ 

Bored with school, poor grades, disruptive — often kicked out of class, a worn path to Principal who told my mother “Scott just isn’t very intelligent.” I am guessing she believed him. Finally, Dad sent me to Catholic Nazareth Boys School.

At 10, Dad shipped me by train to Canadia's plains for a magnificent summer with Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Bill & his dog Pete. One of my life’s most wonderful periods.

Mother/brother cabal persisted, but I endured, ignored & rebelled. It was never a ‘family’, just a sex-generated construct.      Loved my inherently distant father.

School’s usual grinding boredom; bad grades & rebellion mixed with extracurricular achievement: Boy Scouts, church, and school election, but before the inevitable expulsion, I was enrolled at Manlius Military School where my character blossomed qualifying me for a rare appointment at the brand new US Air Force Academy. 

Apparently, I was neither stupid nor incapable of high performance.

Once at Lewis & Clark College, I returned home only rarely to press my father’s flesh & taste the nostalgia of my youth. I phoned Dad every 2 weeks. Distrust of unrequited loves was a nasty undercurrent.

        Quote: “if its not one thing, its your mother.” Robin Williams

Escaping college with NO career plans, I was immediately struck with raw menial survival (making doughnuts & sleeping on the storeroom floor). No carer plan then NOW seems so bizarre.

Eventually, I discovered corporate sales & a few years later, the more rarified Account Executive roles of large LA advertising firms.

Once unleashed, my innate intelligence, imagination, creativity & work ethic drove me unrelentingly upwards while my rental properties did the same financially.

I ignored SIT foreign Travel perhaps because of the loneliness of my free TV dating game trip to Rome without a life-partner. Financial insecurity was always a haunting fear.

My idyllic 20s 'la la' California beach life continued smoothly into my 30s:
   1. managing & buying more rental property,
    2. restoring antique cars & 1900s antique oak furniture,
   3. biking & running alongside the ocean,
   4. nights in the melange of beach bars filled with the white collar young who lived at the beach & worked inland.

I seemed to have 'made it' & life was good. Only the lingering financial insecurity fears of my 20’s lingered in my dreams. My future could only get more comfortable, complacent & wealthier.      Ha Ha Ha

I could never have imagined the dramatic, abrupt 4 earthquakes my life was soon to navigate:
   1. acting
   2. LA advertising Account Executive again
   3. law school & my solo practice
   4. and then (Wait for it😇 ) ….. I quit law & moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “Who'da thunk.”

Purposely tossing myself into Jackson Hole's small historical Western town’s mix of seasonal tourists, young outdoor & eco enthusiasts, ranchers & the wealthy surrounded by government-protected wilderness, I was making...

my life’s best decision, but didn’t know it yet. 

Again, I could not have imagined months earlier the exciting challenging experiences I would pursue:
    1) built my native log house,
    2) built Scott’s Garage Doors business,
    3) bought & managed my rental property,
    4) back to College —again, &
    5) roadtrips & challenging outdoor adventurers. 

No la-la beach-life here.

1. Teaching: My obsession to motivate learning by replacing force-fed dishonest, boring, memorization lectures & destructive testing WITH critical & creative thinking projects & NO tests. Draconian 'class control' replaced with mutual teacher/student respect.

The most demanding & yet fulfilling career of my life. 

2. Solo Outdoor Adventures:    
   a. Normal short weekly outdoor activities (mt biking, kayaking, hiking)
   b. Long American & west Canada road trips: FL, AK, OR & CA
   c. Major summer wilderness adventures: White River, AR; AK’s Chilkoot Trail/Yukon River 600mi paddle, Boundary Waters Canoe Area paddle, WI

3. Foreign Travel: 
   a. RV van roadtrips thru 1) Baha, Mex., & 2) 3mo thru Mex, Guat~ & Belize 
   b. 3mo roadtrip & backpacking around New Zealand’s islands