About

My dad enlivened my imagination by sharing poems and novels and exposing me to recorded and live music from an early age. Consequently, Vachel Lindsay, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and the Beatles all unknowlingly helped set me on my creative course.

I began playing in bands in my early teen years in Amarillo, Texas. I wrote songs and played occasional gigs while attending the University of North Texas, UT Arlington, and Arizona State University and during my career as a psychotherapist.

After relocating to Flagstaff, I played in local bands including bon fiction, The Prowlers, the Gut Brothers, the Walter Salas-Humara band, and Radio Blazar). I still play out occasionally but I’m mainly involved in recording and writing. I’ve recorded three albums: Psyche’s Playground (2011), Passing Sleeping Cities (2019), and Magic Beings (2025). I have a new single release coming out in March 2026 and plan to release several more singles before releasing a new album in November or December, 2026. I’ve also contributed tracks to albums by Walter Salas-Humara and The Silos.

Playing music and writing keeps me feeling vital and helps me cope with the heinous events in the world and mundane hassles we all have to deal with. I’m a much kinder person as a result. I think our best chance for creating a more cooperative, mutually satisfying world is for each of us to tap in to our creative impulses and share what we come up with, with the world.

I hope my songs and stories inspire your curiosity, sense of wonder, compassion, and ability to be true to yourself and others. I long for all of us to live the best, most cooperative life possible. If you share that, we are kindred spirits.