Influenced by Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Plath, Neruda, Cervantes, Auster, and pretty much any cerebral author known or not.  I enjoy Latin poets and authors as they speak of life in such absolutes of beauty and death. Like most writers I have several "children" (manuscripts) that are in various states of completion. I have spent most of my life writing either as a newspaper journalist and/or photographer.  I feel that I am at the point in my career that allows me to truly write in emotional terms after having lived a bit and failed in love and work. Those travels and travails are necessary to the writers toolbox. I enjoy writing poetry and short stories.