When I was a child I didn't always know all of the words that I needed to express things verbally. I discovered that I could paint what I saw or what I was thinking with words. Whether it be frustration, anger, pain, happiness or excitement, I could express it better with my words after a little time alone in my head, than when I was trying to speak them to another person. Ideas continued to come to me, like lightning flashes they demand attention and I have to respond to those flashes with my "good" pen in hand. Sometimes I write stories, sometimes poetry, sometimes my voice sounds like a nun or Stephen King and sometimes I'm between those lines.  Straight forward, not always politically correct, offering my unrefined version of the the truth. It's all me though. What you see is what you get.

Birth Place: Lansing, MI 

Accomplishments: Essay "Simple Lessons" published in the August edition of Mythic Passages e-magazine. It can be viewed at www.mythicjourneys.org