The Anchorage – Welcome to the Anchorage and the Quarterdeck

My name is Gregory K. Maxey and this page is about me. If you are interested in my Microsoft Word Tips or my consulting services, please select the appropriate link above.

I am a retired Submarine Ordnance Officer (U.S. Navy) with my anchor now set in the Brasstown community, the far south west area of North Carolina. That's me on the port side. While I have taken off the uniform for the last time, I am remiss in providing an updated picture. Perhaps I will get to that one day.

I spent a total of thirty (30) years, two (2) months and twenty (20) days in military service to the United States. I enlisted in the U.S in May 1977 and began my Navy career as an Seaman Recruit. In April 1988, then a Chief Missile Technician, I was commissioned an Ensign, Limited Duty Officer (Submarine Ordnance). Going from a "goat" (Chief Petty Officer) to Ensign seemed a fall in prestige of epic proportions, but the climb up the commissioned ranks was both challenging and rewarding.

The Navy was a great adventure. Previous duty assignments spanned the globe. I served at naval installations in Scotland, Hawaii, Guam, and up and down the eastern U. S. seaboard. I had some fantastic experiences on and below the vast Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans.

I was privileged to be called a crew member and "shipmate" on USS FRANK CABLE (AS 40), USS NEW YORK CITY (SSN 696), USS SIMON LAKE (AS 33), USS VON STEUBEN (SSBN 632), USS DANIEL BOONE (SSBN 629) and USS JAMES K. POLK (SSBN 645). For more information on these magnificent ships, see the links in the Chain Locker. I always wear a hat, and typically a ship's or veterans ball-cap. So many times grateful Americans will thank me for my service. I always reply "Thank you. The service was both a privilege and an honor."

For six years after leaving the Navy, I was a owner\partner in a wholesale live bait distribution business located in Andrews, NC. A family illness caused me to leave the business and today I play/work as an independent Microsoft Word developer and consultant.

I suspect that all of my MVP award nominations were not for what I knew, but for how much I enjoyed helping others work through and use some of the many Word features. Sharing my eclectic collection of Microsoft Word Tips was my primary reason for creating this website.

Although I voluntarily withdrew from the MVP program in August 2009, the Word MVPs are an outstanding group of extremely knowledgeable and helpful people. I remain friends with many. I continue to assist Word users by maintaining my Word Help & Tips pages and participation in several online support forums.

I now spend a lot of my time hiking and camping with my delightful life partner Janice. Her dazzling smile and the energy of her sweetness and beauty combine to create the most incredible light. Spring '24 we hope to hike the 115 miles of the Appalachian Trial in the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

Some of my favorite parables, quips, and quotes:

"Whatever you are, try to be a good one." —William Makepeace Thackeray
"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become." —Carl Jung
"The lion doesn't concern himself with the opinions of sheep." —Unknown
"To dare not to offend is to not be honest." —Thomas Paine
"Be who you are and say what you mean. Because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. —Dr. Seuss
"Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." —Winston Churchill
“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.” —Mark Twain
“Yo Pilgrim, life's tough. It's tougher when you're stupid.” —John Wayne [said it as well as anyone]
"When you come to a fork in the road....Take it" —Yogi Berra
"The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese." —Anonymous
"Saru mo ki kara ochiru" (literally: Monkey even tree from fall). —Japanese Proverb
"Into each life a little rain must fall . . . some days must be dark and dreary." —Longfellow
"All sunshine makes the desert." —Longfellow's Arab cousin
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there!" —Anonymous
And a reader reminded me: "Not All who wander are lost." —J. R. R. Tolkien"
"If you can't point to the person responsible then nobody is." —ADM Hyman Rickover
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, either way, you're absolutely correct." —Henry Ford
"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package." —John Ruskin
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." —Thomas Paine
"You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done." —President Ronald Reagan
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." —President Ronald Reagan
"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation." —James Freeman
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events, Small minds discuss people." —Eleanor Roosevelt
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." —Margaret Thatcher

That's it for the main page. I will come along side periodically and post a few Word Help & Tips and other things that might be of interest.

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