Author's Biography

I left home as a teenager and barely hustled my way through high school and into college. My major hobbies became flying around the world with the United States Air Force as well as reading and writing. Those hobbies were a way to both amuse myself as well as to understand and fearlessly embrace our random and violent world.

I've since lived in Europe, Asia, the mid-east and on the Gulf of Mexico in a 36 foot sailboat. My wife and I now live in the Pacific North west, but I was born in Galveston Texas, which was a wide open town with all of the vices. My driving passion has always been in the representational arts. I loved to draw from the moment I picked up a pencil. I particularly like sketching portraits and scupting but, as a teenager, after seeing an exhibition of Van Gogh, my eyes opened to a world of intense colors. It seemed each day I saw a new, exciting color and I secretly dreamed of being a painter.