"To tell the story of a life one is bound to linger above gravestones, where memory blurs and doors can be pushed ajar, but never opened. Listen, or do not listen, it is all the same" (Loren Eiseley, "All the Strange Hours").

On my books, writing, acting, and "digging-deep": I have walked through too many abandoned homes and sites not to realize that they are still occupied. I have searched too many empty rooms not to sense the feel of the past still persisting as more than period decor. I have heard so much silence, the absence is calling. I continue on my path and I remember what others have forgotten. The memory of ruin inspires me to build. I cannot let those neglected stories die like somebody's hopes and dreams. I write to preserve the still haunting past. I hope that they, the dead, understand what it is I hope to achieve, for I write for (and about) them....

I am not an archaeologist by choice. Circumstances in my life has always led me to dig deeper for those hidden meanings to events and experiences. Precise definitions of the present do not exist for me, only the presence of the past.To me, an excavation is more a passion than a professional endeavor. It is a deep journey through layers of memory and context that is the thrill of undertaking the task, not the excitement of a re-discovery. That re-discovery is a given for those of us who excavate. One always re-discovers something new, whether it is about oneself, the ghosts within, or the external phantoms that continue to linger about in the ruin and abandonment of archaeological spaces. Remember,above all, what Flinders Petrie, the renowned Egyptologist, once said: "I hear live and do not scramble to fit myself to the requirements of others".......