It’s All About Me, Me, Me!

I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.
- Samuel Goldwyn

My name is Wilfried Voss and my sixth sense tells me I am still alive. I took the liberty of distorting the name of a major food group and make it my personal web site. Well, the actual major food group used to be ice cream, which, first of all, was impossible to distort in a way that captures one’s mind and leaves it there forever. Secondly, according to my doctor and especially my wife, frozen yogurt is much healthier for me than ice cream (I take their word for it…). Out of rebellion I created the term Frogen Yozurt and later found that it makes for a heck of a web site name.

I was born and raised in Germany, but for the past twenty years my home and my heart have been in beautiful New England. I share my birthday with celebrities like THE KING (Elvis Presley) and David Bowie, which is January 8 (not the same year, though).

My background is in Electrical Engineering and my special skills allowed me to travel all over the world, until I found my home here in the United States. I got married to an Irish-American green-eyed red-head – Hey, what are the chances to find Irish folks in Massachusetts… – and on May 27th, 2007 I was blessed with the birth of my son, Patrick. The same year I was also officially received into the Episcopal Church – We’re not Catholic, but that is another story and shall be told another time. The next adventure will be to finally become an American citizen.

A Czech proverb says “Learn a new language and you gain another soul” and I can say, despite being familiar with the English language for many years, living in the United States has gained me another soul. I started writing and publishing technical literature, while still maintaining my job as the president of a business that sells industrial electronics components. The first book helped me to overcome the writer’s fear of being published and I will continue this line of work, because it is rewarding, not due to the monetary compensation, but, egoistically and arrogantly, for my mind.

Currently, I am exploring another genre of writing, namely fiction writing. I have numerous ideas in my head that would provide enough material for at least another four or five books, but as Peter De Vries said: “I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paper work.” Writing a novel takes time and being my worst critic, it always takes some time before I am satisfied with my own writing.

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