Out of them came the gusts and grunts and hiccups and and heehaws of the common fun of the earth; and though what the words meant was, in its own way, often deliciously funny enough, so much funnier seemed to me at that almost forgotten time, the shape and shade and size and noise of the words as they hummed, strummed, jugged and galloped along," said Dylan Thomas when he was once ask why he wrote.

I've always written, letters, journals and bad poetry Even school newspapers and annuals. but because my spelling was so bad; I'd always been seriously intimidated. That changed when I became a Navy Journalist and was known as 'the journalist who wrote in long hand and corrected with a typewriter.' Thank God for 'spell check.' First were newsfilm featurettes that I wrote, story- boarded and produced for the Navy Office of Information. Several Won awards. One went on to become a feature film: "A Few Good Men." Then for almost two years I had my own base newspaper to write for and supervise being written. After retiring from the Navy in 1978 and beginning my acting career, I continued to free lance as a writer. Because of my nuclear power background, Waren F. "Buck" Rogers hired me to write and storyboard several scripts for the Navy Research Lab (NRL) on such complex topics such as "Liquefaction of Coal," "Fusion," and "Ion Implantation." I also wrote for David Gerber of Screen Presentation various films that included a national spot on Tornadoes for NOAA and a treatment on "Wave Technology."

Since then, I've written several books, plays and screenplays. "Sewerpipe" is a book that details my first six years in the Submarine Nuclear Navy and a one-man play, "The Admiral of the Hill;" a portrait of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, father of the nuclear navy.

Also a movie script and book "Conquistador Days in Bella Lago, MS" an amusing mystery that is in fact a loving portrait of Okolona.There's a play and movie script on Rembrandt van Rijn. Plus numerous other works in search of a publisher.