Richard Meehan

Richard C. Meehan, Jr. was born on July 18, 1960, near the end of the Baby Boom. He grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The language of that time included comments such as “Peace, man,” “Cool, baby,” and “Groovy!” Televisions were black-and-white. The day’s big news stories were about the Vietnam War, the Peace Movement, and the lunar landings by NASA’s Apollo missions. In addition, people of the era witnessed, with amazement, the advent of color T.V., air conditioning, and cordless phones. Young Americans saw the time as inspirational. In 1982, after graduating from Wofford, his hometown college, Richard became a full-time employee of Marko Janitorial Supply, his parents’ business. Over the next thirty-eight years, he performed all jobs at the company but was primarily a marketing expert. Richard’s writing appears in fiction and nonfiction magazines, e-zines, newspaper columns, and novels. In addition, he enjoys making music with his voice, the saxophone, and the piano. He lives in Spartanburg, S.C., with his wife, Renee, a teacher, and Indy, an antisocial indoor cat who has little to do with him, even though he feeds her daily.