Among other things, here is an introduction to me.

"Would you like fries with that?" is a blog.  But you knew that right?  The name comes from what I was told I would say over and over with a history degree, because "unless you teach or write, you can't do anything else with a degree in history". 

That student advisor wasn't far off. (You CAN go to law school, but I didn't)  I majored in elementary education, and due to a string of events we shall save for later, I had enough credits to also land a degree in my favorite subject.  You guessed it.  (not that it was that hard or anything) History. 

Oh, I also have a masters in Special Education, but again that's not what I'm doing.  You know, the job market for new teachers sucks, so I work in small government.  I worked as a firefighter for more than a decade, and the vast majority of it was in a specialized field: aircraft rescue.  I have credentials as a haz-mat responder, EMT-B, and arson investigator, among many others. Then I got sick, (Meniere's disease) and that was the end of my career. No one really wanted to hire an unbalanced (no really Meniere's is a balance and hearing disorder) crusty old fireman, so here I am working in small government and happy as a clam.  (Why exactly are clams happy?  Do they want to be in my chowder?)

So, working in small government part-time is what you do with a degree in history, that is if you don't teach or write or go to law school.  So in my spare time, (working part-time that seems to be a lot) I'm going to write a blog about history.  This will likely follow no discernible path from one story to another, but a lot of the historical stories will be local.  Some of the things I write about might even be how- to's on history research and genealogy.  It all depends on my mood.

So, sit back, relax and enjoy some ramblings about history from the Rogue Historian (that's me by the way).

And yes, you DO want fries with that.