Creative and Performing Arts Award from Colorado State University for portfolio of drawings, paintings and sculpture. Transferred to University of Colorado as Art Major. Lived in Boulder, Colorado 26 years, moved to Houston and Austin, Texas. Lived in Las Vegas three times for a total of fifteen years. Also enjoyed living in Clearwater Beach, Florida. Currently (2018) living in Hollywood, CA for the second time, moved away for thirty years but always loved the Los Angeles and greater California areas. .

Currently (2018) working in Fashion Industry and writing five screenplays. Logline of one is: A basketball player opts to approach retirement from the game by searching for his fiancee who disappeared sixteen years earlier, resulting in the star's twelve rebound sex fifteen year old children whose paths cross his mystery woman's eight.