I was born & raised in Washington State, where I still live. After high school, I served in the US Army as a Medic, Reaching the rank of Specialist 4. After discharging from the Army, I got into Manufacturing; Food Production, Electronics, Low voltage lighting, Automotive, and plastics. Also I worked in Engineering of electronics. After attending night school for Video Production, I worked for county/city television for a short period. I was married in the early 90’s to a very creative lady. She created a Christmas ornament and called it Pocket Santa. She had the idea of making these and selling them, and asked me to write a small bio for it. By the time I was done I had about 1 ½ pages, so for fun, I continued and did some editing, and the story came to life. After getting some illustrations done, I tried to get it published through many Publishing companies, but no one was buying. The ornaments never went to market due to material & labor costs. In 2022 I lost my wife to cancer. And while going through some stuff, I found the story, however most of the illustrations were missing.