Monthly Archive Browsing Month: February 2014

Living in the wilds of Northern Virginia circa 1969 in a small suburban home tucked up against several hundred acres of dense woods, my childhood universe seemed, for a little boy with an endless imagination, vast unexplored virgin territory. Child molestation, serial killers, and abductions most certainly existed back then, but our parents were blissfully…

I’ve spent my entire life trying to spin gold from straw. Like the Miller’s daughter in one of my favorite Brothers Grimm tales, ‘Rumpelstiltskin’, the idea of transforming something ordinary into something unique and magical has fascinated me. And that urge to create has never left me. As a little boy, my urge to create…