I’ve worked as an intelligence analyst, a newspaper reporter, an engineer, an editor, committee staffer in the legislature and a health care board director. I’ve read, written, analyzed and amended alternative energy, environmental and health care legislation. One of only two non-elected authors published by the Florida House of Representatives with my 1993 Clerk’s Office Style Guide.
They were the native tribe of prehistoric North Central Florida. When Europeans arrived in Florida, sweeping out prehistory before them and towing history in their wake, the natives had been here for at least twelve thousand years. To the armed European businessmen, the natives' prior claimancy was ill established. Consequently, when the Spanish failed to secure written documentation