: About Me

More than anything else in my life, I've been a musician. I was raised in Youngstown, Ohio, but left that rust belt town as quickly as I could with a rock band. After touring the US and Europe as a lead guitarist in various bands (none of which became wildly famous) in the early 1980's, I landed in the Tampa Bay area, then finished my degree in psychology at the University of South Florida and became a hypnotist.

Never did I think I would become a writer. My professors in college used to beat me for the lousy writing I did. But I started making contributions to a local natural health magazine, and my writing improved. I read a bit of Hemmingway, and was deeply impressed by the cleanliness of his style. My own style started to clean up, and soon I only had to rewrite articles four or five times instead of a dozen times before submitting them.

As a hypnotist, I could help a lot of clients where other people have failed, particularly in the area of weight control. My talent there was mainly due to the massive amount of natural health and nutritional information I had gotten from my personal studies in that arena. Clients would tell me that they had medical problems disappear that were previously.

Realizing that I had a unique synthesis of information, I wrote and self-published a book, The Body Intelligent Diet: The Anti-diet Book, available at my website, www.mindadvantage.com. Now I have a literary agent interested, which is very exciting. Writing the book expanded what my ideas about writing were all about, and now I write something daily, on all sorts of topics.

Most of what I write about has to do with self development and self actualization. I've been influenced by Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Edgar Cayce, Paramahansa Yogananda, Ram Dass, Gurdgieff and Ouspensky, and most recently, a video titled The Secret.

Of course I was influenced by Gene Rodenberry, but I'm not quite a Trekkie, just a fan.

More personal info is available at www.mindadvantage.com .

My passion is ...

Music and Self Actualization

I know too much about ...

How democracy brings government to the lowest common denominator.

My parents always told me ...

Mother: "Ask your father." Father:" Ask your mother."

My childhood ambition ...

To become an airplane pilot

My favorite memory ...

Making my own explosives to play with when I was eleven.

Why I write ...

To find out what I'm thinking, or sometimes to share it.

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

The video, The Secret.

My first job ...

Stock Boy

My best moment ...

Removing someone's pain with hypnosis.

My inspiration ...

All successful people

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