About MGPatrick.com

I am, above all, an artist, an avocation deplored by my parents (raised in the Depression) and ignored by me until I could no longer resist. After that, I'm a husband, a father of five children ages 44 to 20, and my wife of 30 years and I live near Palm Beach, Florida.

I was born a Navy Brat just as Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese. I grew up living in many diverse ports in the United States and Europe and gained an odd appreciation of how different cultures manage, quite well, to live together as well as we do. I graduated from college and took my Master's in Psychology from UCLA around the time of Richard Nixon's abdication of office in 1972.

I survived the Timothy Leary years, the Newt Gingrich years, and am suffering the George W. Bush years, as are we all. During that time, I worked as a gas station attendant (when one sat in one's car while an attendant pumped the fuel), bussed tables on Los Angeles's Restaurant Row on La Cienega Boulevard, and a proposal writer for major corporations. I also have written for newspapers and ad agencies, for rock-n-roll bands as a lyricist, and business planning companies.

I am associated with www.IQ140.com, the site of Robin Ader, author of The Messiah Condition, a wonderfully uplifting work of literature. I highly recommend it.

Our family has had to deal with difficult issues not unlike yours regarding raising children and the drug abuse that is so pandemic to our national culture. Our personal experiences are available for those parents who seek solace and guidance on dealing with such matters.