About This Blog

Why “My Life as Superman”? 

Because I’m a mutant who can bench press my body weight and see through walls.

Well, not quite.  I can read road signs from miles away and smell the breath of someone on the street from five floors up.

I have a genetic mutation called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which is responsible for the plethora of physical ailments that have plagued me all my life.  As nature relishes a balance, this condition also fits me with exceptional powers of perception and short burts of remarkable strength and power.  I could think of myself as disabled, and I am to a good extent, but I prefer the silly, yet uplifting, “mutant superhero”.  There are also interesting cosmetic symptoms.   See up there in the banner — the blue eyes?  That’s the EDS.  When I was but a wee cut, I remember being fascinated that my sclera were blue while all my friends’ were white.  I fantasized then that I was an alien being with special powers.  It turns out that’s not entirely far from the truth!

This is my digital sketchbook.  All I perceive and feel with that hypersensitivity is noted and filed somewhere in my mutant brain.  This is a repository for some of that data, so I can make room for more.  For as long as the Internet’s existence has overlapped my life, I’ve felt that nothing I do is legitimate until it is published out here in the ether.  For longer than that, I’ve known my ideas are best expressed before an audience.  I think more clearly out loud, in print, on stage. 

This is a vehicle for exploring ideas, and for coalescing a unified body of work from my disparate talents, skills, interests and vocations.  

I hope you like something you find here.