I am an artist/illustrator with a slight tendency towards computer nerdiness. I am also a survivor of nearly three decades as a freelance artist, and of six years of a business partnership with Stacy Mantle. It's been quite an adventure, lots of hard work, but also lots of fun.

I've been a member of Authors Den for a few years. Though I am not a writer by profession it seems like I've been doing more and more of it lately. However, my art and design work is what I love best and where most of my time is spent.

In my spare time I help friends and family (and sometimes total strangers) with their computers. Mostly I help them find alternatives to using Microsoft products, with the eventual goal of becoming Microsoft free. What a grand day it will be when my friends and family can all say; "I don't do Windows!"

After all, computers without Microsoft are like chocolate cake without mustard.

Better browsers:
firefox
opera

Better Office Suites
openoffice.org
Lotus Symphony

Better Operating systems
Ubuntu
Mandriva Spring
Puppylinux
OSX Leopard