16 things about me
Signposts along my journey as an artist & writer. Tap an image to read more.
For me life began in a gritty factory town in the Ohio River Valley, but my childhood years were happy ones.
My mother’s record collection, her sense of style and her wonderful voice were my first exposure to the beauty of art.
Somehow my blue-collar dad understood and respected my creative impulse and in his own way encouraged me.
Before losing his way and dying at 22, a troubled middle-school friend and his mother became my Medici.
I fled an unhappy home in Texas for college in Oklahoma. My two children would resurrect my sense of family.
My first career was in graphic design, and for 40 years I would make visual art and write words for other people.
A difficult job at Oklahoma’s biggest ad agency launched a collaborative friendship that continues to this today.
Award-show recognition led to an offer to be co-creative directors at an up-and-coming Dallas advertising agency.
Soon I was making my own art and within five years would be represented by leading contemporary art galleries in Dallas and Houston.
Shortly after 9-11, I met and married the love of my life, fellow artist, Alison.
My 2010 solo show at a Texas art museum marked the end of that phase, and I switched my focus to writing.
For D Magazine and Glasstire I reviewed exhibitions at venues like the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Nasher Sculpture Center.
My other creative outlets included a Youtube channel with a light-hearted take on the rules of grammar & punctuation.
Now Bennie (aka Walter Benjamin) and Izzy (aka T-Rex, Tasmanian Devil, RotoRooter, etc.) make us smile (mostly).
Life imitates Art, and the transformations portrayed in The Butterfly Myths have inspired me to plant a butterfly garden.
