ABOUT ME I am forty-one years old and live in Syracuse, New York. I have been employed at Community General Hospital since 1996 in the Food Service Department. I have worked most of my life as a dishwasher. I call my newest book "Poems By A Dishwasher" because that is what it is! If my words take the reader to a better place, if only for a moment, then I have honored my time and space. My first book "The Window At The Top Of The Door" was listed as a recommended book by "The Valpariso Poetry Review" in Volume Ix1-2 Fall/Winter 2007-2008 Spring/Summer 2008. A poem from my second book "Wake Up The Ghosts" was printed in the Syracuse Post Standard on Sunday May 3, 2009. In honor of National Poetry Month "Always Tomorrow" was used for the topic of recession.