About

ABOUT STEPHEN J. FORREST 

I am a serious student of curiosity and eclecticism, enjoying all matter of things and subjects in the real world and in the worlds of magic and Fantasy.  I lettered in chess in high school, leading the chess club to a state tournament win at first board.  The coaches insisted that the word chess be embroidered across my letter so as not to be mistaken for something so important as football or basketball.

Ironically, the sports teams didn’t win any state championships that year.  I collect graduate degrees, and have three sheepskins on my wall, four if you count a Bachelor’s degree in an unrelated subject.  If I won the lottery, I’d go back to school full-time and study any number of subjects: mathematics, religion, literature, physics, history, art, or philosophy.

 I had to get an age waiver to join the Navy later in life, and served with both sailors and Marines all over the world for eight years.  My wife explained the situation succinctly, “My husband had a midlife crisis and instead of doing the predictable things like buying a sports car or having an affair, he joined the Navy.”

I like to cook, especially soups—the more ingredients, the better.  I live on the Great Plains in a large house with my wife, son, daughter-in-law, four small grandchildren, and a black cat.

My interest in stone talking began when I was a child traipsing all over my grandfather’s dairy farm picking up arrowheads and pretty rocks.  What if rocks were alive . . .