As a boy, I liked "making stuff," as Tuck Langland might say, though I had few tools to work with. I liked carving bearded sailor faces from pine sticks, using a pocket knife and later an "exacto knife." I found Malvina Hoffman's "Sculpture Inside and Out" among the books in our house and pored over this wonderful book. I had virtually no art instruction in school, and was an English major in college. In the early '90's, suffering from divorce, I took up sculpting small faces and figures in Super Sculpey, and tree carving (including a 30' dead Ash tree, bottom to top); I began sculpting intentionally, learning anatomy, and had my first bronze commission in the late '90's. I joined the NSS, took a workshop from Richard MacDonald in 2000, and later workshops at Brookgreen Gardens. I have had a number of public commissions and private commissions, most recently a bronze sculpture of Henrietta Lacks, unveiled in 2023, and installed on the spot where stood a monument to Robert E. Lee.