I have played many sports throughout my life; the ones that I have invested the most time in are soccer and rock climbing. I played soccer competitively as a youth and young adult, including winning a recreational state championship at 16 and playing varsity soccer in two semi-finalist teams. I have coached our daughters' soccer teams from the age of 5, and they both enjoy playing. I began climbing outdoors at the age of 12, and I have gone on to climb everything from expert level sport climbs to 2000’ “big wall” cliffs. After winning the youth southeastern regional championship in sport climbing, I was offered a sponsorship by a climbing shoe and gear company. I still climb indoors and outdoors with our daughters, who are gifted natural climbers.

I am a musician, playing the guitar and percussion (primarily congas, timbales, and bongos) as a hobby and in live bands after college. I learned how to record my own music on computer and then used those skills to produce a wide variety of tunes, including the soundtracks for the films that we made when pursuing a career in film.

Creative writing has been a passion that I have returned to many times in my life after earning as English degree with an additional specialty in it from Stanford University. In those days, I mainly wrote literary short stories. I then switched to focus on screenwriting in Los Angeles for a number of years.