As a boy, I relished family picnics, and the times we sat around the campfire in my parents' woods, sharing memories, laughing, crying, passionately debating, and telling stories. At night, when the adults went inside the house to do what adults do, my sisters, cousins, and I would roast marshmallows over the fire until they were toasted the color of caramel or burned black to a crisp. We'd slap them between two graham crackers with a healthy slab of Hershey's chocolate and share ghost stories. To a child, the intoxicating and frightful images of such yarns can be the most impressionable experience they encounter for years to come. As a spiritually sensitive kid, I became terrified of the dark. Of the monsters in the woods.

 

As I grew older, my love of stories and storytelling expanded to creating and engaging in poetry, music, lyrics, song composition, art, photography, writing, acting, and filmmaking. But the fear of the monsters in the woods followed me far beyond my parents' backyard.

 

My current focus is on screenwriting, with a spattering of short story and novel writing. This blog is a place for me to share my creative writings, reflections on life, and spiritual insights I've discovered in hidden places. It's a way for me to open up a seat, again, at the campfire of my youth, but this time, to bring meaning, purpose, and light to the dangers, darkness, awe-inspiring, and wondrous experiences we all encounter on this journey we call Life.