: About Me

I spent 14 years in the newspaper racket and loved the first 11 years of it. I currently work in a home helping developmentally disabled adults. I have a son and two daughters and am divorced. I enjoy my children and time with them. I also like to read, write, collect autographs, poetry books, dvds and cds. I also fish, metal detect, hunt, and like video games. I published one article in a treasure hunting magazine in 1982 ( the first I ever wrote) but haven't written much since except as a reporter, columnist, bureau chief and newspaper copy editor.

My passion is ...

my children and poetry.

I know too much about ...

journalsim and baseball.

My parents always told me ...

if you're right then never back down.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a writer and live in a cabin in the woods.

My favorite memory ...

my children as toddlers and my parents.

Why I write ...

how can I not. It's like oxygen.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

too many books to list. Listening to Johnny Cash, Elvis, rockabilly, the Clash and Beethoven.

My first job ...

dairy queen.

My best moment ...

the birth of my kids and my parents seeing me get my BA Degree.

My inspiration ...

my kids and my parents memory.

Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Does society need poets?

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Does society need poets? Not in the sense that society needs doctors or nurses or firefighters, but society "needs" poets in the same sense in which it needs ministers, counselors, actors and singers. To say a society, any society, can thrive without poetry is arguable at best. Every society known to mankind has had chanters, story tellers, singers, bards and wits. Poetry adds to society in the same way music, art, dance and other so-called cultural activities do. Society needs poets for the same reason society needs libraries, theaters and radio. To live a life without passionate thought ...

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