My first love was baseball, and to this day, it is still a great passion for me. My first experiences in baseball involved playing with my dad who taught me at the age of 5 to hit and catch the ball. I loved it when we would line the batter's boxes and baselines with lime in our yard, then he, my brother Mike and I would play as if it was a Major League game. I do have a rooting interest, as my blog makes obvious. The Chicago White Sox have not in recent years been considered the "first" team in the hearts of many Chicagoans, let alone nationally, but you wouldn't know that when some 1.7 million people, including me, greeted them home in the most amazing ticker-tape display I have ever seen on October 28, 2005. The White Sox did what the Sox of another color had done the year before - they had WON THE WORLD SERIES!! Back to back drought-busters!? Amazing. If I had made that bet in 2003, I'd be rich. Even before their World Champion winning 2005 season, I have followed this team for years. I remember going to my first game as a young boy at Old Comiskey Park sometime around 1977. The game was actually rained out, and I was scared when they turned off a couple of the light standards, but my father eased my fears by taking me downstairs in the dark, dank confines of the old ballpark, and buying me my very first White Sox hat. I've been a fan ever since. Although I had a pretty successful run as a pitcher and outfielder in Little League and Pony League, I only played a year of high school ball, which I sorely regret. As a decent lefty, I may have had a chance to do something with that arm, but I might have been limited at a more competitive level with my 5'7" stature. At that time, I was heading down the path of another one of my passions - music. Music, like film, has absorbed my attention for much of my life. I was a Music Composition/Piano Performance major in college. I have also written a few screenplays, and have made a couple short films. I work a regular day job - nothing fancy, and direct a local chorus as well. I have a beautiful daughter named Epifhany who is 6 years old. She loves to sing and dance, and loves the White Sox as well. (I wonder why!) We play catch with nerf balls for now. Next, we'll work on her hitting...

baseball, music of many kinds, from Mahler and Mozart to the "Doors," Star Wars, composer of music, plays piano, sings, Conducts chorus, storytelling with music and images.