: About Me

My passion is ...

calligraphy and lettering arts, music, ghost stories, drawing on the hiking trail, and (lemme see, ahhh!) writing.

I know too much about ...

WWII history...

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a pilot physician, and then an author, and then an English teacher, and then........

My favorite memory ...

joy-riding with my dad in his truck on the hills (yes, hills) of midwestern Kansas.

Why I write ...

I write to put color and taste to my emotions and nut-job ideas.

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

It varies week-to-week, but now: anything by M. R. James and Harlan Ellison; documentaries about WWI; manuals about iMovie; _Drawing for the Absolute Beginner_, by Mark and Mary Willenbrink.

My first job ...

was as a soda jerk at an ice cream store - best job I ever had!

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