I've never not known how to read.  In fact, I was reading books like "Huck Finn", "A Wrinkle in Time", at the tender ages of eight and nine. Since my grandmother was a librarian, she taught my younger sister and I how to use the card catalogue. I didn't know it then, but twenty some odd years later, when I was finishing up my Literature degree at the University of Judaism, I was the only one in my program, who wasn't "freaking" when the catalogue online went down as often as three times a week.. Because my grandmother started me out with an appreciation for the classics when I was so young, I knew who to turn to for book recommendations. Perhaps because I knew I'd never run marathons, I outdistanced my friends in reading, instead. My favorite authors are as numerous as the stars. But, here are just a few: Ferlinghetti, Kerouac, Dorothy Parker, Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, Maya Angelou, Fern Michaels, Jack Finney, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Steinbeck, Twain, Langston Hughes.

I found out on March 1, 2010, that a poem I had submitted to "The Unforgettables Press", had been accepted for publication. I was published in the March 1, 2009 issue of a journal called "The Poet's Pen."

mindfire renew
Online Magazine that published two of my poems in 2006.

The Big Picture
In 2001, over 300 poets came together in Venice, CA, to show their strength in numbers and got their picture taken for what was then known as the Living Section of the LA Times, re-named the Calendar Section.