Look and Listen

Biography

My wife and I have a large organic garden, twenty fruit trees and tend chickens in addition to keeping bees. I'm pretty laid back and enjoy sharing raspberries from the garden with our neighbors. I am concerned about the direction of our country, but don't support either party. I'm educated in the fields of biology and environmental science, have been married for 33 years and have two grown children.

Inspiration

An English teach in high school must have seen something in me that looked promising. My senior year she asked me to take an exam and write a short story. I did it to humor her because I hated English. A few weeks later she returned with two scholarships, exceedingly rare in 1970, but I was 17 and couldn't imagine myself as a writer. As an adult I wrote constantly for work, including some environmental impact statement - talk about stilting your imagination and ability - but still enjoyed the art of writing. After retiring I found writing to be an outlet and love crafting that perfect descriptive line. Writing keeps my mind active and challenges me every day. I've always enjoyed history, not the names, dates and places that we are all required to memorize in high school but the events that took place underneath the surface of the times. I find it truly amazing how mankind seems incapable of learning from history and past mistakes and its what led me to write my first novel, Truths Blood. I took the lessons of the past and applied them to the current situation in the United States to write a fictional story. A story that seems to edge closer to reality with each passing day.