The author began writing poetry at an early age developing an
insatiable desire for the English Romantic Poets and Transcendentalists. He
attended countless classes in literature and writing as an undergraduate to
better hone his skills and direction.
Over the years he developed a unique style of weaving mixed
meters in rhymed verse associated with various types of animals in his stories.
The meters and rhythms were inspired musically with his talent for playing
nearly all types of string instruments, particularly the mandolin, bouzouki,
and taropatch.
Touched with a natural sense of rhythm and meter for both
writing and music, he became more interested in the music side with the desire
to teach and pursued a Music Education degree at Westminster Choir College in
Princeton New Jersey, then afterward continuing at Elizabethtown College in
Music Therapy.
Eventually, after traveling around the world studying modal
variations in various countries, he found himself in Middleburg Florida, where
he co-owned a successful Montessori school for many years. It's at this point
he realized firsthand the power of rhymed-verse and the effect it has on
children―and began writing The Rainbow Forest.
