Courtesy of my mother's employment with generous financier Henry R. Kravis, I went one year to Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (where Prof. Tom Goldpaugh was an indelible influence on my trajectory as a critical writer), then transferred to Boston University, where I graduated Magna Cum Laude With Distinction In English in 1991. Via a summer pitstop in St. Petersburg, Fl. I returned to Cascabel and Tucson, Az. Wrote extensively and practiced drawing, studied and practiced occultism, metaphysics (meditation, pranayama, etc.) and related topics for many years, visited Berkeley and Bay Area once again and family in Ct. twice. Married and divorced, daughter Jasmine Ennis is now (as of 2002) 8 years old. Have worked in sales at Intuit software since 1998.

At Boston University I co-founded the wildly eclectic literary and arts 'zine Hieroglyph Gumbo and began developing my voice as a poet and critical essayist. My senior thesis at B.U. was entitled "Imagination and the Vision of America in Hart Crane and Jack Kerouac", under Prof. John T. Matthews (who I thank, along with Prof. Christopher Ricks, for not pushing the strident political correctness and semiotic/structuralist distractions which since have overwhelmed and debased our nation's college English and related departments). In Tucson in the mid-90s I founded the vivid one-shot Whoof Session 'zine, and by 1998 I moved my publishing efforts online with the Eleusinian Visions arts and metaphysics publication. I have written 2 booklets: The Virtual Writing Tutor college term paper and creative writing how-to manual, and Talking Back to the Trees, which anthologizes the best of my poetry, some polemics, and the "semi-channeled" prosody entitled "Transmetamorphosis: Messages From the Emerald Host".

Currently (summer 2002) my creative efforts will be directed towards moving much of my material to the online forums you are reading now, and rolling out the booklets. I also am working slowly, on a subterranean level, on some drawings and other visual pieces. Throughout my life I intermittently have been a cartoonist, figure drawer, and oil painter -- although this aspect of my creative expression has not been on the ascendant in recent years, i.e. Dear Muse, when will my artist's block be removed? In the meantime, enjoy my writings and online publications, and e-mail me if you want more details on my various adventures, misadventures, and quizzical perceptions.