I am totally addicted to creating things from my youth. I began my affair with with wood as a teen in a middle school wood shop and continued on and off until the mid 1970s when I moved to Connecticut and set up my first woodworking shop in the garage which included a used wood lathe, where I began teaching myself to turn; albeit poorly. By the early 1980s I was getting better and could even make a lidded box or small bowl turn out as I envisioned it.

In the mid 1980s, I went back to school, changed careers and started a new business. Needless to say, my hobbies moved fard down on the list. Fast-forward to 2005. I retired and left Connecticut for the gentler climate of North Carolina, built a new shop, and as an inspirationn, bought a new lathe and got back into wood turning. A lot had changed in the intervening time. Wood turming had grown from a craft occasionally covered in do-it-yourself magazines into full-fledged art form.

My efforts were largley self-directed and self taught. I soon discovered the American Association of Wood Turners and the local chapter, the Wilmington Area Woodturners Association. I began to attend meetings, symposiums and shows. I also discovered the most remarkable resource, The Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and began and began taking turning classes with incredible turners...