Grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. Moved to Columbus, Ohio for the last four years of my ten year college career. Studied astronomy. Was once declared the premier Perseid meteor shower observer in the U.S. Have been an avid gardener and bird-watcher in years past. As a freelance nature writer and photographer, I was first published in 1993; my article was about, what else, the Perseid meteor shower. Continued to contribute nature articles to papers in Ohio (mosly in Columbus) through 1999, when I began writing weekly nature columns for the Suburban News, which sent out neighborhood-specific papers around central Ohio. After moving to northern Indiana, I continued my weekly columns in two area newspapers there through August 2000.

I self-published my first novel in 2004, the poorly edited but no less entertaining (I hope) “Flowering Jezebel,” a humorous fantasy novel aimed at a marginally mature audience. Having learned my lesson re:editing, I now have an editor who has gone through a recently completed manuscript, a tongue-in-cheekish account of my years watching meteor showers, and she has just started going through my much longer account of the first two years of my life as a Gypsy Innkeeper…

...which is what my wife and I are. In early 2000 we quit our jobs and sold our home in central Ohio, and have been on the road ever since, running B and Bs and motels. We have lived on the shore of Lake Michigan, in the mountains of western North Carolina, in two different locations in the Sierra Nevada Mts., on the Gulf of Mexico, in Long Beach, CA., in Boulder, CO., on the coast of Washington and currently in West Glacier, MT. We will be moving back to the Sierra Nevadas soon, to run a motel in South Lake Tahoe.

All of these moves have allowed me to experience a variety of environments and learn all about wildflowers, which are my current natural passion.

I am also a lifelong Beatle wanna-be. As such, I have produced six “Home-Brewed, Imperfect Music for an Imperfect World” CDs of my music.

My wife, Sheri, and I have a daughter, Leah, who is in her last year of law school.

There’s much more to the story than that, but that’s probably more than enough. I am, by the way, working on several possible wildflower book projects…

Peace!