Storytelling, politics- I spent 10 years as a journalist in Colorado. Snowboarding, reading, watching TV, playing around with these computer things.

The Godfather & Lord of the Rings trilogies.
Die Hard, The Matrix, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Paint Your Wagon, Guys and Dolls, Phantom of the Opera (the musical), Royal Wedding, The 13th Warrior, Chariots of Fire

Les Miserables, Los Lonely Boys, Stephanie's Id, The Eagles,Mendelsohn's Midsummer Nights Dream, Miles Davis Sketches of Spain album, Particle, Moody Blues, Alan Parson's Project,

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Year Zero by Jeff Long, The Second Angel by Philip Kerr, Improbable by Adam Fawer, Silas Marner by George Eliot, Quicksilver by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Shogun by James Clavell, No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman, My Life and hard TImes by James Thurber

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Louisiana for six weeks, then Vermont for a few years, then England and back to Vermont for 10 years, then Florida and back to Vermont. Banking in Connecticut, health care in Vermont, Missionary in Brazil, and more Vermont. Army Medic in Korea and Fort Lewis, Washington. Delivering Pizza, selling books, The News Tribune, Puget Sound Poetry Connection, tacoma's Distinguished Poet Series, The Evergreen State College, then Colorado, reporter in the real South Park, Colorado Press Association Award, KSBV Radio and The High Country Trader "Pete at 10,000 Feet" PArk Hyatt Beaver Creek, Inn at Keystone, and North Carolina.

I was a prominent voice in community poetics in Puget Sound in the 1990s, and took some time off to edumacate myself whileliving two miles higher than either coast. Now I'm back on the East side of the continent, and the rhythms call once more.
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