Be gentle - It's my first Blog

I have had many careers and many ambitions, but other than a run at poetry in my youth, I have never thought of writing until recently.

A short history: I have a degree in vocal performance, but have worked as a fast food cook, pizza maker, computer lab monitor, auto parts salesman, waiter, mechanic, record store manager, temp, receptionist, secretary, and finally many incarnations of jobs in Information Technology.

I seem to have a habit of taking on too much, but I am seemingly unable to decide which portions of my life to set aside in favor of the others. I am a father of two, almost a husband again, a teacher both privately and at a university, a singer, a techie, and a graduate student.

Now why with such a full plate would I start a blog which may end up stale, much as my two websites are? Good question, and I hope the answer is an unfulfilled desire to put something down on the page (cyperpage that is) that would mean something or at the very least give me the feeling of releasing my inner writer. I realized years ago I have only a small gift at poetry so I gave it up, but there is a writer sneaking around behind the ghosts of the mechanic, record store manager and waiter and I have to give him a chance.

So here is my first blog - a run on sentence of 39 years compressed into 5 paragraphs. Let me spice it up a bit with some life updates: I am 45 days away from my second marriage, and in another month I begin my second year of graduate school, as well as moving away from a quiet summer load of 3 students to a full load of Saturdays at the university (5-7 students) and 4-6 private students.

You may wonder why the blog address is tenorforhire and yet I am babbling about my life outside of music. No worries there - being a tenor I will inevitably rant on and on about singing, teaching and graduate school.

One last note here - my daughter is 7, and just yesterday she starting riding her bike all on her own. Hurray!