“Stanley The Leaf Pile” started as a weekend afternoon of fall chores of raking up the leaves with the reward of leaping into a giant pile.  This, of course, made just as much of a mess as we had just cleaned up. The jumping into the leaves would not be my only reward as it[…]

“There Is A Boy On Top of My Bed” started as a clever twist on an old story. It would be my first adventure into children’s writing and that is exactly what it would be, an adventure.     I have always been an outdoorsman, cycling, snowboarding, mountaineering; anything to take me closer to nature.[…]

I create as I have something to share; whether it be writing children’s stories or art.  I do it as much for me as for the people around me. As a teen I always aspired to write “that novel” which I think many of us do. This generally equates to 2 pages of bad writing over and over[…]