The Introductory Biography

I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on June 14, 1978. We moved a great deal for my Dad's career, and I wound up in Miamisburg, OH, a suburb of Dayton. Dayton was my parent's parents hometown. I began studying flute at age 12, jazz piano at 18, and I have also studied classical piano and also the guitar since about the age of 22. At around the age of 19 I got it into my head that I wanted to be a writer, and I was really - terribly awful. I've been writing nearly every day for maybe an hour average since I was 19 years old, and now I'm a great writer.

In December of 1998, I was hospitalized for a psychotic breakdown, attended drug rehabilitation, and I have been in recovery now for just about 10 years. I don't do drugs, drink unless they are prescribed, I don't drink alcoholic beverages, and I don't do "hard-line." I mostly sit at home and write longhand in notebooks and type at the computer.

I don't have any friends, and my family has totally broken down. I'm in psychiatric treatment, definitely for chronic psychotic dhysthymia, and possibly for adult autism, and my psychiatrist and other fabulous "psychiatric helpers," are on a short list of people who would wind up dead if I enjoyed even the thought of going to prison. I see an internal medicine doctor for diabetes treatment, and I do just about everything the doctor and the psychiatric doctor command me to do.

I am also an early-morning insomniac, which is a symptom of chronic dhysthymia. Normally I fall asleep very early in the evening, but I haven't woken up later than 4 am in years. Today I've been awake 10 hours already, browsing the 'Net and typing in my files. My major interests as an artist are fantasy, science fiction, horror, classical literature and other literature, comic books and graphic novels, New Age, philosophy, and the already mentioned classical and contemporary classical music, jazz, and electronic composition.

I've decided to go to bed for a while, but expect yours truly back in the evening, if my evening goes as planned.