Me in EXTREME CLOSE UP in May 2007. My physical appearence change very little, as you may see in these more candid shots from a number of years....

Really, the writer dosen't want success... He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall -- Kilroy was here -- that somebody a hundred or a thousand years later will see.

-- William Faulkner

A Very Brief Bio:

I was born in January 1979 in Beaverton, Oregon, a happenin' suburb of Portland, Oregon, the oldest of two kids. (My brother is about 20 months younger than me.) My parents are very boring people who never moved, thus I grew up in the same house and neighborhood. I had a fairly standard childhood, though I was gifted/cursed with a vivid imagination, loads of creativity and curiosity, and a stubborn streak. All of these combined to give my parents plenty of headaches, especially since my best friend of those days was equally imaginative and creative. Fortunately, at the age of nine, I began to channel these aspects into writing, and discovered the one thing I could do better than the supposed average person. I also fell head over heels for the craft.

In high school, my love of writing led me to attend the then-experimental Arts & Communication High School. (It is now known as Arts & Communication Magnet Academy.) The school was a small magnet high school for those with interests in creative and written arts. It was a happy four years for me, where I grew as both a person and as a writer.

After graduation in June 1997, I went off to the University of Oregon in Eugene to study journalism. After graduation in June 2001, I took a year off to have my post-college identity crisis, and -- jaded by The Real World -- decided to follow the call of teaching, where I might actually make a positive difference in someone's life. I began the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at Pacific University in mid-June 2002, and emerged as a certified high school language arts teacher, with my master's degree, in June 2003. In August 2003, I moved out of Oregon to Northern California to teach high school English. Currently I am working in a brand new high school in the town of Roseville, CA, teaching English to freshmen and sophomores. No regrets at getting out of my personal "Dodge" of Beaverton; I like the Nor Cal life.

And what of writing? My dream since I was nine was to be a published novelist of a series, and finally that dream was realized with the October 2002 publication of Partners in Time #1: No Time Like the Present. The second book, Partners in Time #2: Going Medieval, was released in October 2004, while the third, Partners in Time #3: Future Shock, was released in September 2006. The fourth one will be out in July 2008. I write out of love, not money, and hope that someday, if the gods smile upon me, perhaps I can write full-time for income....

And so there you have it.