From San Rafael, California on a windy January in 1952, I've taken quite a few odd steps. My father told me how to walk in the woods when I was about 6, how to pilot a boat when I was 8, bought me a Kay guitar when I was 9 then told me not to ever join the army when I was about 13.

University of Oregon 1969 -- Everything else, until I hitch-hiked to New York City and met my wife on Canal Street in 1973, is complicated filler. In short, I've worn lots of different hats and hung them all over the place. Now, I have the chance to concentrate on what I really love about being alive in this amazing Creation, and to read what I like, when I like; listen to and make the kind of music that gives me peace and to write, now full-time.

I learned my craft post-college, spending 20-plus years in the trenches of advertising and publicity as a graphic designer, marker-pen-jockey, art director and copy writer. I served the needs of a wide range of clients from corporate multinationals to non-profits and small retail businesses. I now focus my design work on book-related marketing and packaging for a small client list.

Our family business, from 1985 has been trading and retail in the American Indian arts, primarily Southwestern cultures. Indigenous cultures world wide, have an amazing resilience and ability to endure despite the most repressive conditions imposed by more "advanced" occupiers. I suppose that, along with the idea of finding a lasting home, a look at the endurance of older cultures is found in all my novels. So far, there are six of them out there, including a new one under a pen name. I look forward to meeting my readers, if only online and enjoy discussing anything having to do with books and writing.