I was trained as a writer by my father (a hobbist painter who was a frustrated writer, too), my English teachers and Journalism professors. I seemed to have a natural ability for expressing myself on paper, although I was much less successful than others in school due to my excessive fear of failure. Looking back, I can see the important hand many fine people had in honing my skills, encouraging my delight in creating poetry and cheerleading my attempts at other creative expression.

Self-awareness of my talent didn't come until I was sent to Israel in 1972 and wrote "letters" back to the local newspaper as a form of public relations. When I returned, my work had been published verbatim. The head of the Journalism Department at the University of Richmond called and insisted that I finish college under his tutelage. Today, my job is as a writer and marketing director. I write songs mostly for fun.