Don Feeney is "a retired United
States Diplomat and United States Air Force officer. He has a Masters of Science
degree in Management Information Systems from the University of Southern
California, and teaches graduate school part-time. Don lives with his wife Andi,
and their cat, Kismet, in Indian Harbor Beach, Fla." Don Feeney is that author
of Gathering No Moss: Memoir of a Reluctant World Traveler.
According to the book description
of Gathering No Moss: Memoir of a Reluctant World Traveler, "Don Feeney has seen
it all. As a diplomat working for the United States, he served in embassies and
consulates around the world. As an air force officer, he had some daring
exploits of varying levels of sanity and sophistication. He's lived, worked, and
played in more than fifty countries on five continents. In his memoir Gathering
No Moss, Feeney recalls his three-decade trip down the wild, weird, and
surprising journeys of his life. A somewhat reluctant traveler, he conveys the
heavy burden of loneliness on the road while driven by the search for meaning,
spirituality, and love. His life has been one of thought-provoking questions,
highly charged emotional situations, and brushes with both greatness and
tragedy. He's been an airman, an officer, an instructor, a commander, an
administrator, a trainer, a consular officer, a manager, and a diplomat. He's
sold paintings on a street corner, washed dishes, worked in a paper mill,
flipped hamburgers, painted houses, and tended bar. He smoked pot, drank too
much, and fell in (and out) of love (including four marriages). He went AWOL,
was shot at three times, survived a brain aneurysm, and beat colon cancer. His
mantra- "The more you know, the more you don't know sh*t" or TMYKTMYDKS-reminds
us all that the human mind will never let you understand the human mind."
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