I am a graduate of UF College of Journalism, 1976. I have been a reporter, newspaper editor, graphics designer, advertising copy writer, t-shirt artist, folksinger, enigma, inner voyager, questioner of authority... Need I continue? Currently I am a laid-off teacher working on reinvention. My major literary influences have been J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Frost, Anne Rice (in her vampire days), and Michael Donaghy. Recently I've been smitten by Dan Brown's edge-of-your-seat simplicity, and George R.R. Martin's "in-your-face" brand of high fantasy. more...