A brief background

 There is nothing more paradoxical than the blank page for the writers,

artists, scholars and the like. On one hand the blank page is full of

possibilities. On the other hand it can be a bit intimedating and conjure up

writer's block. On that note I suppose I'll just write about a collection of my

interests.

   I am passionate about the humanities, mainly history, art literature

and collectively cultures. I'm an artist, poet, book worm and a student

historian. I read it but I also write poetry and have since I was fourteen. I

currently maintain a site unifying my interests in the arts.

     Chronologically, I suppose my first love is history, which I am majoring and

planning to teach it. I have enjoyed learning history since I was ten years old.My fifth grade

teacher and my father where the duo responsible for instilling a fascination for

history--first facts and finally the evolution of analysis of such. In a sense I

feel like a dectective in a way sifting through clues of how mankind has lived

and evolved in relation to society.

     Though, I have been cautioned in a study of history class to avoid

modernism, which is comparing yesterday with today a little too much. I suppose

it can loose something in the translation. However, I am not shamed to admit I

am smitten with the past. I feel that our past is our present's mentor. It

teaches us who we are and where we are going, among other things. I especially

enjoy prospecting for that obscure fact or other random piece of knowledge that

people may otherwise not know for some reason or another.

      My particular interests in this broad discipline can be found in the deserts

of Egypt among the valley of the kings and pyramids of Giza. From a more local

standpoint I'm fascinated by the American Revolution, as well as the natives who

inhabited North America before it became settled.