I was born and raised in upstate NY, on a small twenty acre farm in a town of about 5000 people. After high school, I received my BS from the University of Bridgeport in CT, then moved to Long Island where I spent the next 18 years raising my family. In the early 90’s, I relocated to the Raleigh NC area where I reside today, splitting my time between the Raleigh area and NC coastal town of Newport, on Bogue Sound across from Emerald Isle.

I developed an interest in writing early on in life.  In my pre-teens and early teens, I would write short stories with no audience in mind, except myself. Then I discovered my mother was finding and reading them and she encouraged me to continue. In high school, I studied journalism and did primarily sports reporting for the school and local town newspaper and secured a journalism scholarship. I studied journalism, but only for a year, primarily because I did not like the journalism program, which did not allow me to focus on the creative process.  My only significant contribution to the literary world at that time was an essay contest which I entered with an essay entitled: “The Importance of Law and Order in Maintaining a Free Society” and I was one of three winners out of 400 entrants. It was written at a time of social and political upheaval and the Viet Nam War.

I began a forty year career as a Human Resources professional shortly after, raised a family and kept busy with a variety of extra-curricular activities, including fifteen years on my horse farm. None of these activities included writing. It wasn’t until Covid  and solitary confinement on the coast that I ventured into the book writing world, when I had time to allow my imagination to take over.  This is where my first novel RUNNING SHOES was conceived and became a reality.