RUSSELL LLOYD
My birth took place in the Mount Holly, New Jersey hospital. After my parents moved to Moorestown, I attended the # 5 school in Lenola. My 4th-grade teacher wrote the following on the back of my report card: “I’ve never met a student that says so much with so few words.” I am now trying to deserve that compliment with my writing.
I grew up in Lenola, a division of Moorestown, NJ. In 2005, Money Magazine called Moorestown the best place to live in the entire United States! Reading this, my good friend, Buddy Rhodes, told me, “I never want to hear you saying I’m from Moorestown. You are a Lenola boy. Don’t you ever forget that!”
After graduating from Moorestown High School, I attended College part-time for a few years. I was working at the same time. Fortunately, I met my wife, Linda, sitting in the front seat of a car my friend had flagged down in the parking lot of a local Diner, Olgas. Our first date was to see a concert featuring Motown’s Smokey Robinson & The Miracles. My second date was with the girl in the back seat. Realizing I had made a mistake, I asked Linda out again. To this day, I am glad she agreed. I was hitting way above my weight with her.
Once married, I worked for whoever would have me. Somehow, someway, I am not sure why. I became a Fluid Power salesman. A successful one at that. Fluid Power is another term for Hydraulics and can be described simply as the joys of oil under pressure. After throwing my pot stash away for good, I worked my way up to management and then to leading my own distributorship. Luckily, lightning had struck me.
We now live in a lake cabin, waking up to a scene of tranquility every morning. My puppy, Kasper, sleeps with us. Kasper wakes me up at least three times a night, licking my ears. I think she is making sure I am still alive.
After arranging the sale of the Fluid Power distributorship, I retired for good, or so I thought. Then I got the bug again and formed another company, realizing I only wanted to write! That’s where I am now—just writing.