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During my formative years, I did the Boy Scouts thing, the alter boy thing, the student council thing and the YMCA basketball thing and thought I was destined to do the lawyer thing when I was making half-hearted plans for college. But my favorite thing, the thing I did best, was theater.

Three years out of college, I auditioned for a small touring company based in Charleston, SC. That was 1985 and I've made my living in theater, on and off, full-time and part-time ever since. Along the way, I've also worked as a feature writer, photographer, illustrator and print designer.

Depending on how you interpret them, I've broken most, if not all, of the ten directives, as penance for which I worked in children's theater for about a decade. I like to cook, though my chefly repertoire is rather limited, and I know a few guitar chords, though I don't own a guitar. I prefer to walk. When I lived in Columbia, I gardened quite a bit and had a small shop where I sometimes made things out of wood. At right is a bedside shelf and lamp that I made before moving to Greenville.