BIOGRAPHY

L DOUGLAS ST OURS...BIOGRAPHY
(For those who enjoy his stories and poems and wish to know more about him.)


L Douglas St Ours was born in 1950 in Baltimore Maryland…the oldest of six children…he attended parochial elementary schools in Baltimore city and Baltimore County…in 1962 he and his family moved to rural Ohio…in 1963 the family moved again to Charlottesville, Virginia where Mr. St Ours attended public high school graduating in 1968.... He attended Old Dominion University for one year…dropped out in 1969 to work for one year with the FBI…1971 he took courses at the University of Virginia…then dropped out in 1972 to get married in California…. He returned east with his wife to Fairfax, Virginia and enrolled at George Mason University where he graduated in 1975 with a Liberal arts BA…. From 1966 to 1976 Mr. St Ours worked as a laborer and frame carpenter in the building construction industry…from 1976 to 1989 he was employed in the nonprofit healthcare sector…from 1990 to 1992 he worked for a social services non-profit…from 1993 till his retirement in 2005 Mr. St Ours was employed in banking. Since 2005 Mr. St Ours has devoted his time to volunteering as a mentor at Big Brothers/Big Sisters and as a therapeutic mentor with Catholic Charities. He has traveled on the road to 48 states, 5 Canadian provinces, and 2 Mexican states. He is married with one grown child…he currently resides outside of Baltimore. Mr. St Ours has been writing poetry and prose for over a half century… he has a passion for storytelling…so his writing is a means to telling stories. Mr. St. Ours can be reached on Facebook.