Artist! Journal keeper, having not missed a day since New Year's Eve 2006. Potter, husband, father, twice-self-published poet, humorist, 4-time marathoner (those days are probably gone forever), megawalker/hiker, avid reader, overeater, lapsed vegetarian, beer guzzler, wine sipper, student, substitute teacher, adult trainer, ear-hair-grower, Freethinker, writer, numbers cruncher, dilettante, naysayer, yeasayer, whaddayasayer, theremustbeawayer. Composer of sentence fragments. Crossword puzzle/labyrinth/word search constructor. Former newsletter editor, former coordinator, former administrative vice president, former receiving clerk, former engraver, former lithographer, former gallery guard, former night watchman guarding ceramic elephants (that was creepy, but $30 was a lot of dough back then). Dreamer. Insomniac (stayed up literally ALL NIGHT on my Birthday). Arizonan. Former sound man for a mostly living-room band, who's not altogether that sound. Correspondent who will cry if snail-mail ever meets its demise. Moviegoer. Bowler. Processor of nutrients. Back-fence-fire survivor. Opinionated jerkwad at odd times; enlightened joyspreader at even odder times. Performance artist billed as Multimedia Poet. Amateur in the Classic sense, i.e. Lover!