In 1987; while attending Langston University and studying Journalism (both televison and radio, and newpaper journalism) and Mass Communications i was apprised of the fact that Langston was to become involved in a joint theatre project with the Guthrie Arts and Humanities Council. Having always been deeply enamoured of the theatre ( both the silver screen and live theatre), i; of course, volunteered my time and effort and creativity to the cause. I was given a walk-on part as one of the gamblers in the musical "Guys and Dolls". And; while i had performed theatre earlier on in college (while attending East Central University summer '80-fall/spring '82-'83), "Guys and Dolls" was my first foray into professional theatre. I went on to volunteer my time and energy at the Pollard Theatre for almost two and a half years, before personal upsets precipitated my leave-taking.

when i was in high school i won a First Place award for a scholastic meet at Murray State College located in Tishamingo, Oklahoma, USA. I have no recollection whatever of what i wrote, only that i only managed a mere page and a half of written material and that i won the First Place for Imaginary Writing. This placed me in the Top Ten of Imaginary Writing in my high school grade group, and Number One in the nation that summer. And it made me eligible to appear in the Who's Who of American High School Students, that year. It aggrieved me no end that i couldn't afford to purchase even a single copy of that esteemed journal,...

It's been over a year since my beloved Starlight depaired this Veil of Tears. I thought i'd be dead, too. or in nuthouse, but God I'm a Christian. Not a very devout one, to be certain. But God has a plan and my part in it has not been played as yet, it seems. I'm engaged to another charming and kind and loving woman. I left my family and the way of life i knew in the near south of Oklahoma and for the second time in my life moved north of the Mason-Dixon Line to go and live with a woman. A woman, who like my first wife sees something worthwhile in me that i cannot see....I've been struggling for almost a decade now to sit down and finally finish an epic length novel that i co-wrote with other role-playing afficionados