About Cliff Bernard

Born in December 1947 on the first wave of victorious exultation. Grew tall and skinny in the west while the first promise of parental bliss and security soured and the parents hulred imprecations at one another into the sleepless nights. Survived three marriages, passed though 50 dead-end jobs, then barged head down through four university degrees, made a living teaching, finally arrived at the biblical end point of three score and twenty, mind strong, body intact, playing tennis and still procrastinating on the writing of the memoir, that first big work.