Carlton Smith is a Project Manager and erstwhile Web Application Developer residing in Southeast Michigan. Carlton is a veteran of the armed forces and member of American Mensa. He has two, wonderful, young children.
On these pages you will find the cobwebs lurking in my soul. The lines written here are deeply personal, but are worth nothing until they are shared with another human being. My hope is that when you read these lines, like by sunlight shining through the cracks in an old door, you might see a little bit of yourself.
I have received many questions about who Uncle Sol is, and why I might have used him to name my site. The answer to the first question is that he is the subject of a poem, written by E.E. Cummings (included below). I’ll let you decide why I may have used it as the title to my site. The short answer is as simple as the fact that I like it. But there’s more to it than that.
nobody loses all the time i had an uncle named Sol who was a born failure and nearly everybody said he should have gone into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable of all to use a highfalootin phrase luxuries that is or to wit farming and be it needlessly added my Uncle Sol's farm failed because the chickens ate the vegetables so my Uncle Sol had a chicken farm till the skunks ate the chickens when my Uncle Sol had a skunk farm but the skunks caught cold and died so my Uncle Sol imitated the skunks in a subtle manner or by drowning himself in the watertank but somebody who'd given my Unde Sol a Victor Victrola and records while he lived presented to him upon the auspicious occasion of his decease a scrumptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with tall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my Uncle Sol and started a worm farm)
