I've spent about an hour trying to write something clever in this space and the end result has been absolutely nothing.

There's no way I'm just going to write the same old stuff. You know: that I'm 38 years old, a high school English teacher for 10 years, a graduate from UNLV with a Masters in Literature (yes, reading is required at UNLV), that I have 2 beautiful children-Savannah and Trenton-that I have an amazing wife, Phoenix. I mean come on! That would be boring. Sure you might notice my entire family shares his or her name with a city, but nobody wants to hear that boring stuff. Heck, you don't care that I've spent some time in Italy, run several half-marathons, and that my honeymoon was watching my wife run the Boston Marathon (among other activities). The traditional bio would note what a huge sports fan I am and that I was born in Ohio and moved to Las Vegas in 1988. So I'm just not going to write all that stuff.

By the way, my favorite color is green.

My passion is ...

Sports

I know too much about ...

Sports

My parents always told me ...

Don't watch sports all day; wait, that was my wife who said that.

My childhood ambition ...

Play sports

My favorite memory ...

Holding my children for the first time

Why I write ...

I don't know

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

The Bean Trees

My first job ...

Oles Home Centers. I was the cart boy.

My best moment ...

I had my foot run over by a truck while celebrating UNLV's 1990 national championship in basketball

My inspiration ...

My children

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I've never been much of a poet; at least my college English professor didn't think so. He was a nice enough guy, bought me a Christmas present, POETRY FOR DUMMIES. I still correspond with him from time to time. We don't correspond much about poetry, not sure we would even if he hadn't bought me that book. I did ask him about some good poetry books for children once (last Thursday to be precise). He sardonically recommended Milton's PARADISE LOST, so they could teach it to me. I chuckled as a means of covering up my humiliation, which I'm now over, by the way. I really am. Just ask my...

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