Innovative. Versatile. Determined. I am a writer, illustrator and, most of all, a creator. As a child, I worked in the family masonry business with my father. It was a hard-taught lesson in work ethic, and a lesson in working hard to produce something that you can be proud of. My father taught me, through the art of masonry, the pride that a person must have in their work in order to be considered an artist. I have carried those lessons with me throughout my life, beyond his death, and have used them as a way to live my own life.