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I love the journey called my life because it has been remarkably unconventional, right down to my name. Even as a child, I played with Tonka Trucks®, Transformers® and GI Joe® along with Barbie®. I just didn’t have any notion of something being a girl toy verses a boy toy, so I got to play with everything. This kind of “play with any toy you want” attitude followed me into adulthood as I decided in my early teens to become a film writer, director and producer. Little did I know, this path wasn't the only unconventional one that would contribute to the adventure that is my life.
After graduating from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts in Film, I gained needed experience to pursue my dreams in a myriad of ways including, working in the world of finance on corporate budgets and tax filings, producing for a live television news show, working on Hollywood blockbuster films, traveling domestically and internationally and producing award-winning shorts including one of my own that I also wrote and directed.
I am continuing to develop and write material intended for the big screen, including producing a documentary called Stewards of the Land, a first person account, in which I intend to take the viewer on a journey to answer one question, "If we give personhood to corporations, why not the environment?" I have also researched, developed and written Syracuse 8: A True Story, a screenplay about a group of football players who boycott the 1970 season during a tumultuous time at Syracuse University. It is a great story that shows unyielding athletes standing up for what they believe in to change a 20-year old, outdated athletic system. That's some powerful stuff!
However, it was the events in my personal journey which led to a dramatic change in the course of my life.
Although my quest for truth, true love and true happiness in my personal life began in the summer of 1995, it was in the summer of 2010, I underwent a great shift, a massive, inner transformational experience which unleashed a creative wisdom and I saw my true self, presented to the eyes, as a formless light within the body. It was in that moment that my quest for truth, true love and true happiness was realized. This experience placed me on the nomadic path towards a deeper understanding of our existence and my place in it. It is the path, of what I call, "The Arty Hobo."
As a hodgepodge of literary meanderings about the human condition and the road to inner peace, The Arty Hobo: A gastropub for the soul, is my attempt to share my experiences and allow a space to aid in illumination by agitating the mind to free the soul.
Everything I write about comes from a place of experience. I am not "into" anything, I don't follow anyone or have a belief system. I write about what I know, from first-hand experience, as the truth, not for you to follow me, but as a sign post, a beacon in your journey called life.
Although my quest for truth, true love and true happiness in my personal life began in the summer of 1995, it was in the summer of 2010, I underwent a great shift, a massive, inner transformational experience which unleashed a creative wisdom and I saw my true self, presented to the eyes, as a formless light within the body. It was in that moment that my quest for truth, true love and true happiness was realized. This experience placed me on the nomadic path towards a deeper understanding of our existence and my place in it. It is the path, of what I call, "The Arty Hobo."
As a hodgepodge of literary meanderings about the human condition and the road to inner peace, The Arty Hobo: A gastropub for the soul, is my attempt to share my experiences and allow a space to aid in illumination by agitating the mind to free the soul.
Everything I write about comes from a place of experience. I am not "into" anything, I don't follow anyone or have a belief system. I write about what I know, from first-hand experience, as the truth, not for you to follow me, but as a sign post, a beacon in your journey called life.
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