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Larry Slater - Donald Whirlow

I have been writing for publication for 35 years -literary magazines, and articles on historic homes, nonprofit boards and antiques In addition to the "soft" subjects listed, I also have published multiple articles on international business, changes in industries and professions in Suite101.com itself, and in the Pittsburgh Business Times , part of the 42-city American City Business Journals Inc. stable of business publications.

I "stole" time from my market research consultancy to research, write and see published by Arcadia Publishing a history text entitled Ambridge. The title is the name of the town chronicled, for eighty years a German millenial religious society's headquarters. From 1905 on, the Western Pennsylvania town has been headquarters of American Bridge Company, a massive bridge, barge and LST-manufacturing division of United States Steel Corporation.

My day job is market research consulting - trending, competitive intelligence, surveys situational analysis and reports/proposals.. A far cry from researching and writing articles!..

Free time?! There is that, after all. Live theatre cultural tourism; family, best friends, and close fraternity brothers. And reading - lots of it. Social and military history, biographies, business history and recent business events, anything regarding the Romanov dynasty, the Hapsburgs, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, the British Empire, the history of food and table manners.Add to all of that, movies, top-drawer food (restaurants - I'd kill myself and my guests if I cooked!), wines and single malts; collecting small antiques.

Oh, and there is my complete addiction to the Three Stooges, classic Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny cartoons, the Marx Brothers, the Blackadder series starring Rowan Atkinson and to repeated viewings of the film Cold Comfort Farm.

Of course, all of that levity makes it sound as though I take everything with a Chaplin-esque shrug. Not quite! I am equally content and far more challenged by projects that call for intensive research, multiple and concurrent deadlines, business, international affairs and/or cultural topics, developing highly unexpected answers to client requests, and working either alone or with a large and diverse staff.