After PA, I earned a BA in English at SUNY Albany. In the late 1980's, I moved to Massachusetts. Around 1990, I started studying singing in Boston. After singing in the chorus of Bellini's 'Norma' and Donizetti's 'Roberto Devereux', I made my solo operatic debut in 1999 in the role of Ruiz, in Verdi's 'Il Trovatore' with Boston Bel Canto Opera (BBCO). Later that year, I sang Kaspar in a BBCO production of Menotti's 'Amahl and The Night Visitors'. During the 2003-2004 season, I sang Camille in Lehar’s "The Merry Widow" (Chaminade Opera Group, Attleboro MA). In 2005, I sang the role of Eisenstein in Strauss II’s “Die Fledermaus,” and produced the run for Chaminade Opera Group.

In 2006, composer Larry Alan Smith set three of my poems in a song cycle called “I sing because,” which will premiere in June 2006 at an Opera in the Ozarks event, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. In the mid 1990's, I started writing poems after a delightful evening in Gloucester MA. A few years later, I headed the Poetry Workshop at Newton Free Library in Newton MA. I have been the featured poet twice at the Agapé Poetry Series in Boston, and have read publicly at Borders and at Barnes and Noble. During the summer of 2003, some of my poems were accepted for publication by The Bastard Quarterly, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Nomad's Choir, Parnassus Literary Journal, and Poetry Motel.

Althea and I live at the top of a high hill in Boston Metrowest, which has a view of the John Hancock and Prudential towers in Boston. This aerie is Althea's small-scale re-creation of her childhood vista outside of Denver.