Adobe Design standard CS4 ( - Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver

I was born and raised - and still live- in Grand Traverse County in Northern Lower (Peninsula) Michigan. I met and married my wife, Patty, here. We've been hitched since November of 1984! Together we've had eight kids (4 boys, 4 girls), and homeschooled them, our two eldest attend Nortwestern Michigan College and I'm going online at Kaplan University to add a degree in web animation and multimedia to my illustration skills!!!

Stephen King, Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston books, Piers Anthony's Xanth series, Neil Gaiman, Star Trek books, Tad Williams' Otherland series, Orson Scott Card, Ringworld series

Star Wars series, Xanadu, Superman The Movie, Superman Returns, The Fifth Element, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Flash Gordon, Labyrinth, Hollywoodland, Batman, Batman Begins

Star Trek - TOS, TNG, DS9. VOY (but NOT Ent), LOST, Ghost Hunters, Battlestar Galactica, the sundry CSI series, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Science Channel, Sci-Fi channel, Supernatural, Smallville, Chowder

Anything by - Nine Inch Nails, White Stripes, Lone Star, Paul McCartney, ABBA, Peter Gabriel, Monster Magnet, Garbage, Rob Zombie, Madonna, Goo Goo Dolls, Police, AC-DC, Kiss, Muse, Barenaked Ladies, Ozzy Osbourne, George Strait, Nickleback, Little Big Town, Keith Urban, Celtic Woman, Saliva