I am Interim Director of Libraries at the El Paso (TX) Public Library. I am a member of Tumblewords Writers Project, a group who gather for two hours each Saturday to write. I am also a singer and take weekly singing lessons. I am a heavyset but otherwise healthy 63-year-old man. I have seen myself as a writer since my youth, but I have only started committing stories and poetry to paper in the last three years as a member of the writer's group. I am married to Jean-Claude Linossi, a native of Stasbourg, France, and we have been together for 26 years. We live at a high elevation in Northwest El Paso with our two shelter dogs, Milou and Rousseau. We have lived in El Paso since 2010, and find it to be a wonderful place where we are thinking of retiring. We also have a house in the mountains of Western North Carolina near Asheville. I am a native of rural Kentucky, and have also lived in South Dakota and South Carolina. I have many stories to tell. I also love playwriting.