I started off wanting to be an actor, but while successful in little theater, failed miserably in Hollywood.  Had always had a penchant for writing -- in high school I was writing a novel the kids were taking home for themselves and their parents to read  I joined the Air Force, had tours in Greece, Turkey, and Germany... where I then had a "fatal involvement," which covered a span of nearly 7 years.  What began as a diary of a love affair ,very quickly developed into a book of poetry -- being strongly influenced by a tattered book of poems by Walter Benton.  After returning to the states, I tried to get into acting, but it never quite gelled.  I wrote poetry prolifically for awhile, but then began to concentrate on larger projects.  I wrote a couple of screenplays, and stage plays; was agented a couple of times.  But it didn't work out.  Gained 120+ credits of college, but no degree.  Finally, a series of personal disasters forced me to leave L. A. in '95, and I moved to Kansas, where both my sister and parents had moved (from PA).  Am now close to retirement, and took the plunge to finally publish a book on my own... with plans to do more.  Have been published in some literary quarterlies and little magazines previously, and won a prize with the Kansas Writers Association in 2004 -- but nothing spectacular.   My book: YOU, MY LOVE... a diary in verse (a la Doctor Zhivago) is something that went through many revisions, tons of submissions, and a never-dying dream of over 40 years.  And is still as fresh as when it was first being written.

YOU, MY LOVE... a diary in verse. Love poems. Available on Amazon, B&N, iUniverse. --- "Once in a lifetime, there may come a love you can neither deny nor ever forget."