Born in Duluth Minnesota home of Bob Dylan. Family traveled like gypsy's after our father was killed in a railroad accident in a 1958 snow storm on the iron range. We ended up in Page, Arizona for a short stint after the completion of Glen Canyon Dam. We then moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1962, where I grew up and graduated from high school in 1972.Joined the Air Force the same year during Vietnam Era and traveled to Southeast Asia and Korea, before settling down and getting married and having a family. Have had a knack to write poems and articles to local newspapers for personal therapy . Have been an advocate in preserving what's left of our Sonoran Desert and endangered, threatened habitats.