About Me

The central thread in my life seems to be the test of applying my creativity, skills, and experience to business and art...and learning to let go. I build web sites, make music, take photos, and rescue animals.

I grew up in a military family never going to the same school two years in a row until high school. So, I adapt to new environments very quickly. I lived in a dozen states and three countries before I was sixteen.

My father retired from the Army in Virginia I graduated from the University of Virginia in the mid eighties.

I moved to Manhattan in 1989 and lived there for seven of the best years of my life. During that time it was hard for me to conceive of living anywhere else. I played in bands like Native Tongue, Venus For Breakfast, and Soluble Fish and recorded with Christine Lavin on Rounder Records. I indulged my love of dance by creating music for the Anabella Gonzalez Dance Theater and the Princeton Ballet. I bought a Nikon F501 camera and began shooting rolls of Ilford HP5 black and white film compulsively. Some of my shots were published in Dance International Magazine and graced the covers of dance and theater programs.

In 1995 I began flying back and forth to Los Angeles to work on a record with a band led by Clayton Cages. Unfortunately, that record was never released but there are some selections from it on my music pages. I finally moved to L.A. in the spring of 1996.

While in L.A., I played with a band called “Flowers” that won the trophy for The Best New International Artist at The White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia and toured with the Bet Williams Band.

In 2004, I moved to the South Carolina to be closer to my family and to enjoy Charleston.