I was taught to write (pre-school) by my first step-mother, producing profiles of imagination by age 10. Going to military school interrupted that development, but I was later encouraged by a high school mentor, J. Wilmer Benjamin, who insured I was in "Quill and Scroll," the Southern Interscholastic Press Association, and produced articles for the local news. As a Freshman at UNM studying journalism (from Keen Rafferty), I was honored for a short story in their annual writing contest. After service in the Navy, I was offered a reporter's job at the Beckley (WV) Post-Herald, but couldn't support a new wife and baby on $50/week. I produced a book of 55 poems, Once In Old Orchard (writing as Tom Curtis) about that period in the '50s.

With the Air Force soujourn, scripting was mostly dedicated to occasional feature articles for local newspapers. A principal achievement, among other staff studies, was a paper I produced "that changed the course of (military) history ..." [a quote from a senior Pentagon 3-star interviewed after active duty].

During a job as a field auditor at the Savannah River Plant (SC), I wrote and published RPT Magazine (about VHF communications for Amateur Radio), and was honored as speaker at a Space Coast Amateur Radio Society luncheon. While assisting with the building of an experimental aircraft, I ranged Florida as reporter for Southern Aviation TIMES, and was elected to the Aviation/Space Writers Association.

In ten years as an active member of American Mensa, I wrote and produced hundreds of editions of local newsletters, and articles, letters and essays for others. Some of those efforts are being condensed for a book title, Perceptions. Another effort in progress is Snakejumper, biographical recollections about my father; but my principal enterprise is Shadows (as Robyn, Colorado), in defense of modern subscription to Wicca, the Old Religion, The Craft of Witches.