John Blair....Biography

To recap the last 40 years in a few sentences takes a little discipline.  Rather than the usual "resume", I would rather tell you of  life's lessons I have learned; followed by the nuts and bolts.

These are my own experiences and observations; not borrowed from some book.

Lessons learned......

-  Jalapenos stuffed with peanut butter stick to, and burn the roof of your mouth....

-  Divorce is not a disease, but an error in judgement....

-  Life is a series of random happening that can sometimes happen all at once....

-  It is not what you make of your life, but what you make for the lives of others....

-  Love is when you care more about another person than you care about yourself....

-  Friends remembered frequently.... frequently will remember you....

-  If you take "all" the "right" forks on the road of life, you will go in circles....

-  Successful planning is figuring what not to do, and then not do it....

-  It is ok to cry....

-  Snowflakes soften the World's hard edges and make everything beautiful....

-  Enjoy life, go fly fishing!

Now, the usual stuff.......

I received my bachelor and masters degrees from Texas Tech; worked 3 years in Austin for the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and then left Texas in 1971 for a brief job in Chicago, landing in Washington, D.C.  I have lived near and have worked in Washington, D.C. since 1972. I am in the electric utility business, licensing hydroelectric projects throughout the country.  Included in the move was a failed marriage.

Rosanna and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary 2 years ago by returning to Northern Italy where she was born. My step-daughter, Kris, is 34 and my "step-grandkids" Jordan and Michael are 10 and 12. As I re-read that last sentence, life is full of a lot of "steps" after you graduate from high school.

In addition to my "regular job", I have a successful fly fishing school in Fairfax, Virginia. Yes, you read that right....John Blair's Anglers Academy....teaching people the sport of fly fishing for the past 14 years. I have met thousands of nice people....even caught a fish now and then.

If you have read this far, then I wish you and all of the classmates of the class of 1962 the very best; and may my name appear well before yours on the "deceased" page.