I was born in Independence, Kansas. My grandparents owned a farm and cattle ranch outside of Niotaze (SE Kansas, north of Tulsa near the Oklahoma state line). My brother, Mark and I, while growing up spend our summer months there riding horses, camping, herding cattle and romping around the eastern hills of Kansas. However, we actually grew up in Oklahoma City. Our parents divorced when I was 6 years old. Our mother raised us pretty much by herself. Overall, I believe we had a good, normal childhood.

I started writing poetry in 1990, after being exposed to literature while at College. I immediately was drawn to it's descriptive pictorial of our world as well as to the human emotions poetry depicted. It is these human emotions that I try to capture in what I call, "word pictures". I want people to "feel" the emotions I have felt, to have people recall their own emotions in similar situations. See my guest book to see all the comments people have made. My poems are on the theme of lost love and passionate love, and is reflected in my first book, Hungers of the Heart.

An ironic part of my life is that my mother use to write poetry. I remember when I was 15, she would come into my bedroom and try to get me to read some of her poems. But, being a teenager, I was interested in other things. Many years later, I too, started writing poetry. I then remembered my mother's writing and thought how ironic. It appears that none of my mother's poetry has survived. It was thrown out after she passed away, which I was the guilty party.

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