At times he has been sinner and saint, rich and poor, lost and found and always involved in what is going on. He is educated. He admits to degrees in journalism, business, English and communications but sees little value in them other than he managed to persevere. Don is irreverent, testy, salty, holier than thou, opinionated, soft, and hard as nails, inquisitive and totally undeterred by establishment procedures. He considers himself a freethinker and a pseudo intellectual.
Nothing is sacred and all things are open for discussion.
Still, unbelieving as he might be, Don cares about the world and the people in it. Don wrote and edited for a small newspaper The Pittsburg Morning Sun in Pittsburg, Kansas. He later worked as a reporter, editor and photographer with the Tulsa Tribune. During that time, he was also a stringer for the Wichita Eagle and the Kansas City Star. Don's other work includes numerous appearances in small poetry magazines and opinion columns.