It's All About ME! ME! ME!

Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me?

Are you the new person drawn toward me?
To begin with take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose;
Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal?
Do you think it is so easy to have me become your lover?
Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction?
Do you think I am trusty and faithful?
Do you see no further than this façade-this smooth and tolerant manner of me?
Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man?
Have you no thought O dreamer that it may be all maya, illusion?
O the next step may precipitate you!
-Walt Whitman

	Once upon a time there was an absolutely adorable little boy--eager to please, with a buzz cut and an infectious grin.
After some forty years, he turned into THIS!!! *And he is still* eager to please, and still grinning!**

Who is this guy, anyway?

I was born in Texas on July 8, 1958 and grew up in Texas and New Mexico. I studied Music and History at William Jewell College in Liberty, MO. Receiving my degree in 1981, I took my Master's in Music History and Literature from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Still believing I truly wanted to be a musicologist, I started work on a Ph.D. at University of North Texas. One summer I got a job at a pipe organ factory in Ft. Worth--Graduate Assistants starve to death without summer jobs. My fate was sealed; I enjoyed the work so much and found it so fascinating I quit school and have never regretted it. I left Ft. Worth to take a job with a small company in New England. When the company became decidedly smaller, I got a job in Hagerstown, MD. I live just a few miles north of Hagerstown in Pennsylvania.

Along the way, I learned to admit, then learned to embrace the fact that I was gay. I identify strongly with the Bear movement in the gay community. Click on a flag below to read more of my thoughts on what that means for me.

	On Being a Gay Man
	On Being a Bear

I am still single--and I am looking! I want a monogomous long-term relationship. I am not desperate; I will not change my life for a man who makes me less happy than I am alone. But I am ready for someone with whom to share my life.
Of course, none of this says very much about who I really am. I have found this the hardest page of the site to write, and I still suspect you will learn more about me from a careful reading of the other pages than you will from this one. If what you learn seems intriguing, drop me a line.

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