What’s one thing you wish you had started doing earlier in life?

I wish I would had saved earlier because I am close to retirement age and have zero in bank for that eventuality if it ever happens.

If you had to switch lives with a fictional character for a week, who would you choose?

I grew up in an era where you read, and you can sync yourself into any novel fiction or otherwise, and become any character of that book that you wanna be you know if you’re into the Harry Potter novel, you could be read the read the novel through the eyes of Ron Weasley or Hermione Granger, you could read comic books and imagine yourself as Superman it’s imagination is a great thing. I don’t know that I’d wanna live as a fictional character because as a writer, you’d have to climb into the mind of the writer, which is not always a great place to be.

Have you ever liked a villain more than the hero? Who and why?

In any good novel or story that has a hero and a villain, the true line for the story is always more interesting around the villain. I can’t think of a villain I preferred more over hero or vice versa but you don’t have Batman if you don’t have Joker or penguin or Mr. freeze Superman is an interesting unless you have Lex Luther you have to have a villain for there to be a story otherwise it’s not interesting.

What’s the longest book you’ve ever read?

When I was in high school the longer books, I read where Stephen King novels stand the talisman, IT, things like that. I’ve read the Odyssey. I’ve read most of the Christian Bible. I don’t believe that it’s all historical facts, but I’ve read it.

What’s the best advice you’d give to someone younger than you?

Best advice I would give someone younger. My son included. Is that not everything’s a failure if you learned something from it

What’s one thing that would instantly improve your city?

I would like the city of Phoenix to just work on one road project at a time instead of 20 because they make it very difficult to get around the city when they have multiple closures.

What’s the longest trip you’ve ever taken?

The longest trip I’ve ever taken wasn’t a vacation. It was a relocation from Washington state to Frankfurt Germany when I was 16 years old because my father was in the military and we were stationed in Europe while in Europe, I did get to visit multiple countries with in Europe and the Great Britain, but the longest time sitting on a plane was from Seattle to Frankfurt Germany in 1983

What’s your best tip for budget travel?

I haven’t taken a vacation in years, so I generally just stay home so I guess it’s the staycation or no-cation.

Who is your favorite cartoon character?

I was a kid in the 70s. I still remember Saturday morning the Bugs Bunny roadrunner hour that was always the way you start your weekend.

How does your mindset affect your financial success?

That’s kind of a topic that would be in a book about projecting your thoughts or manifesting and yes, your mindset does affect everything and a positive or negative attitude can affect your financial situation. You could have someone that wins a lottery, but doesn’t have a mindset to hold onto money so they don’t so yes you’re your mindset or your attitude or your feelings toward money or relationships or whatever may be can affect it and it’s one of those things that there’s 1000 books wrote about manifesting.