Personal Journey

It wasn’t until I had to spend several months on my back, that my long-awaited dream would actually take shape and quickly become a reality!

To go through the Gates of Happiness is to experience pure undiluted joy and it is available to all of us if you know where to look.

Fresh out of surgery, I was antsy for the anesthesia to subside so I could go to school.

Until the fall of 1977 I lived a relatively uneventful life. True, I was a poet, writer, and math professor.

I recently returned from my second glorious trip to Paris. I spent eight days in an outdoor photography studio with nine other amateurs and a professional teacher, all of us eager to take pictures in Paris and become better photographers.

I have survived 5 years after diagnosis from invasive ductile carcinoma of the left breast. That’s pretty cool enough as it is, however, what makes this story even more amazing is what has happened during those 5 years.