Got a teaching job at CSUN, started a career in art, got a real studio, had a few shows, married life, starting flying airplanes in 1970. 1974-80 Middle years, part 2, the dreadful times. Got divorced, teaching went sour, career was not lifting off, friend gets killed, had cancer, was getting older but not wiser, revolving door of relationships, bitterness and anger flowering nicely. Met Karl Bornstein, had many shows, had a heart attack, more cancer, met and married Nancy Goldberg, moved to downtown LA and got beat up and almost killed, moved to Santa Barbara, worked with Contemporary Arts Forum of Santa Barbara, found peace and infinite questions by going every day to the white box to work. I am tempted to start the story in the middle because from there on it gets interesting.
Nobody likes to read about somebody else's early life except their mom.
Better to have the appendix out. So, I'll start at the beginning at the whippersnapper stage and amble on from there. Waiting to see if an artist emerges. Hope this thing comes out all right.