A Bio of sorts

I turned 50 on March 1st 2011. I had decided several years ago that this hurdle would be marked by a  BIG party with friends, and a long trip across the USA. The party has been had… and friends from all over including the USA and Holland flew in for the gig. My partner David pulled off a wonderful event.  In a month or so I will once again travel across the Atlantic, visit the wonderful city that is NYC, and then move on to tour the west coast and end up in Las Vegas. I used to say life began at 40… and in many ways it did for me, but I have found 50 to be a wonderful and joyous point in my life.

In short I am gay, a father, partnered to a wonderful man for some 10 yrs now and  live in Ards in N Ireland in a beautiful old Victorian pile. My son who is 21 still lives with us.. and our two dogs. I have been retired for 6 years now and previously served as a police officer and before that a scientist and administrator. I went to University, in 1979 and studied Environmental Science which remains a matter close to mine (and all our hearts now!).

I volunteer within the Lgbt community, currently at a more strategic level, but I am soon to ‘retire’ from that and then pick and choose what I want to do as a volunteer. I tried for 2 years to write the couple of books I had always planned to tackle once I retired, but found in the end that it just wasn’t working for me. I was encouraged by a dear friend to consider poetry, and finally found my voice, and haven’t looked back. I will post some of that here.

Like so many I have succumbed to the force of nature that is Facebook and if you search under my name (vince creelan), well I am the only one, nearly the last of a dying clan.

I am well-travelled, and would love to settle in the USA, but N Ireland is a beautiful place. My profile header is a Lough and Crannog up on the North Coast, a place I am in love with, the one posted here is the view from it over the Irish Sea to Scotland.