Spotlight On Writers - Jake Cosmos Aller, interview at Spillwords.com

Spotlight On Writers – Jake Cosmos Aller

Spotlight On Writers

Jake Cosmos Aller

@Jakecaller

 

  1. Where, do you hail from?
I grew up in Berkeley, California, and Washington DC, and went to College in Stockton, California. After college, lived five years in Korea as a Peace Corps volunteer and teaching ESL. I returned to the US to Seattle for graduate school. Afterward, I joined the Foreign Service where I lived and worked in over ten countries. I retired and lived in Korea and the west coast.
  1. What is the greatest thing about the place you call home?

I live in Youngjando island, South Korea near the Incheon Airport. I live in a garden city. There is a magnificent park – the world peace forest behind my house and a nice mountain to hike in. Over 300 restaurants are within walking distance of my house. There are five beaches ten minutes’ drive away, Incheon is nearby as is Seoul.

  1. What turns you on creatively?

Almost all my work starts with a dream. I don’t dream dreams; I dream movies, filled with action, sound, music, smells many times in a completely different world. I have been writing a dream journal for many years. I write five to ten dreams per day, saving them as stand-alone flash fiction, and also write one to ten poems per day.

  1. What is your favorite word, and can you use it in a poetic sentence?

One of my favorite words is my own portmanteau scumbaggery which I define as the actions of a ”Scumbag”.

The scumbaggery
Of Texas Senator Ted Cruz
Utterly confounds

  1. What is your pet peeve?

Racism, sexism, homophobia, bigotry, right-wing nutcases, left-wing zealots, Christian holy rollers, gun violence, police misconduct, anti-Asian hate crimes, hate crimes, America Firsters, QAnon conspiracy theorists, neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Proud Boys, Boogaloo Bois, and the Oath Keeper militia, etc. I don’t like ”gangsta rap”, “heavy metal”, or “country music”. I am a pragmatist and don’t care about ideological correctness.

  1. What defines Jake Cosmos Aller?

I grew up in Berkeley and DC. I lived all over the world, visiting 45 countries and all 50 states. I served my country as a foreign service officer, and Peace Corps volunteer and taught ESL and government overseas. But what is more important than anything is that I married the girl of my dreams who became my wife 40 years ago.

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This publication is part 250 of 428 in the series Spotlight On Writers