As I have already mentioned earlier, I am a creative person. God has given me the gift of creativity in many areas. Art has always been something that has always been very close to me. It has always been something I could lean back on. I can remember loving art as far back as Kindergarten. Although I do not have as much time to do art as in the past I still enjoy doing what artwork I can on the computer. This lets me do two things I like at once.

I like computers! Computers are so awesome. I remember growing up watching my brothers, Casey and Scott, play on their Commodore 64 computer. Although I didn't really share their interest at the time it paved a path that I would later follow. In high school when I had to make the choice of which classes I would take, I decided to try a computer programming class. It was very interesting to me. It gave me a way of using my creativity and imagination and bring things to life (figuratively). Although art was my first passion, computers are the field of study I chose at college. My hopes are that I can mold the two together somehow.

My senior year of high school I began a new hobby of writing. Although I didn't have a very big talent in that area, it was a way of expressing myself in a big way, which was just what I needed at the time. I began to write a lot of poetry at this time of my life. Another thing I picked up in all this was writing quotes. Not for fame, but for remembering little phrases that would come to my head. So I decided one day (December of 1996) to write a quote for every day of the year. I finished this in 1997 and it marked a large accomplishment for me.

Recently I have really begun to enjoy music quite a bit. The spring of 1998 I began to expand my interest in writing and try to write music myself. I have currently written 5 songs, each having to do somehow with my savior Jesus Christ. Jesus has become a big inspiration in my life at this point in my life. The writing that I have done is a testimony to just how he has worked in my life because you can see how I changed as an individual. Music to me is one of the biggest ways to express how I feel with mere words. Music carries feeling with it in a way that poetry couldn't.

On the non so creative side of me, I really enjoy science fiction. Don't get the idea that I am a `sci' nut. But it is just something that seems to get my mind off of the world around me (at least for a little while). I don't want to run from the world but just relax (just though I'd stress this point). I enjoy hanging out with my buddies and watching Star Trek: Voyager.

I think it's only fitting at this time to mention the TV and internet thing. I really don't watch much television or surf the net as much anymore. I feel that Satan uses this a whole lot to tempt people now a days. It is very easy for me to get sucked in and slip into sin with some of the stuff that is out there. I try to selectively use these.