Howard is 58, married (35 years) with one child (age 27), and has lived in Arizona since 1981. At age 55, he decided it was time to get serious and started taking classes at the Community College level. Maintaining a journal for most of his life, he’s accumulated a significant amount of material about which to write. Whether from personal experience or general observation of the general human condition (particularly of family, friends, and co-workers who won’t mind seeing themselves in print so long as the names are changed to protect the potentially embarrassed) his goal is to write and publish poetry and fiction that points out human folly through friction.