Who is Dreamweaver?

Lets see who am I.  I was born in West Palm Beach, FL in 1950 - the only reason I was born in West Palm Beach was that there were no hospital at the time in Lake Worth - where I lived most of my life.   I went to Highland Elementary School for first and second grade, South Grade School for grades 3 - 6, Lake worth Jr. High School for grades 7-9 and Lake Worth High School for grades 10 -12.  In High School I was a member of the Drama Club, the Vagabonds and was Treasurer in 11 grade and President in 12.

After graduating High School in 1969 I went to Palm Beach Jr. College were I got my AA degree in Speech and Drama in 1971. While there I became a member of Phi Rho Pi and Vice President 70-71 school year. Had some really great times while there and some really great instructors including Watson B. Duncan III.

From PBJC I went on to FAU in Boca Raton, FL.   I got by BFA degree in Theatre Arts there in 1973.

After college I spent a few years working for WEAT-TV12/ WPEC-TV12.  This was like fun and being fun came to an end way too soon.  The station downsized and being a market with only two stations at the time - I left TV.

During this time I became a member of a local Star Trek club, Star Trek Federation of Fans.  This was a lot of fun, but like a lot of things we grew until we were too big for our selves.  We held several mini-cons and one large multi day con called Palm Beach Con I/ Trekon 1975.  (Yes WE WERE THE FIRST TO USE THE TERM TREKON FOR A STAR TREK CON)  As guest we had George Taki - Sulu, who brought with him a blooper reel. (Now remember in 1975 there was only Classic Trek - the first movie was still several years in the future and not even planned at the time) Noel Neil - Lois Lane in both the Superman TV series with George Reeves and the Kirk Allen Superman serials, CC Beck creator of Capt. Marvel (Shazam). and many others.

Workwise I got in to retail management and managed a number of different small stores in the South Florida Area.

On June 11, 1976 I married a girl I had met through the Star Trek club. And we are still together 29 years latter.  We got married after I got off work on a Friday at the Candle Light Chapel in West Palm Beach.  My best man was Rick Gift and his wife was the Maiden of Honor.  After the wedding we went to Winter Haven, FL and stayed in a motel not too far from Cypress Gardens - which we went to the next morning early - from there we headed to Silver Springs - but we stopped at a place called Circus World, which proved to be nothing more than a tourist trap.  From there we went to Silver Springs and spent the afternoon.  Then we started back to Orlando - and found out the Walt Disney World was open to midnight that night. (at this time there was only the Magic Kingdom at WDW). So we there that night and most of the day Sunday and made it home so we could be back at work on Monday.

One of the first things we started was Florida Fandom, a fanzine on Comics, SF, and Star Trek.  We did this zine for many years on and off.  Because of it we met many people via the Mail.  The old zines were much like the Net today, except you didn't reach as many people.

In the early 80's we moved to Sevierville, TN for a few years.  They were interesting years, but we just couldn't get the type of work we needed to do what we wanted to do there - so back to Florida we went.  Got back into retail management when we got back to Florida and stayed there until around 1995 when we opened a small collectibles store in the Farmers Market Flea Market.  The bad thing was just before opening the store we had been in a car wreck and this left me no longer able to do the work needed to manage a store.  So for about 18 month we had our little store.   It was not ment to be - the market for Comics fell (Just a few years before we had done about $500 in comics sales at a three day flea market at the local fair grounds)   Pogs came into being and supported us for several months, then they left as fast as they came.  It was during this time that we got together with the people who would become like family - the core of our Wiccan Family - Lady Vesta and Angus.  She had her son while we had the shop and the day he was born it was announced over the load speakers at the flea market.

In 1997 we formed what would become Dragon Palm Circle - our Wiccan Coven.  Our founding members were: Lady Sky, Lady Vesta, Angus, Pete, Aquarius, and myself.  In the Summer of 1999 Lady Sky, Lady Vesta, Angus, the kids, the cats and myself all moved to Sevierville, TN.  Aquarius had already moved to Atlanta about a year earlier and was very glad we were going from a 10+hour trip to a 4 hour trip.   In 2000 I became ordained through both Church of Seven Planes and ULC. (links to both can be found on my links page).

In 2001 I started working for a local Gem Mine in Pigeon Forge.  We sell buckets of dirt with uncut stones in them.  I dress like an old miner selling the dirt and telling stories about mining and the stones. It's a lot of fun.

            Dreamweaver - NYE 2000                                                      Lady Sky - NYE 2000

Comics and SF collecting have been my hobby most of my life. I've had the great joy of meeting the creators of two of my all time favorite Comic heros. C.C.Beck the creator of Capt. Marvel and Marty Nodell, the creator of the Golden Age Green Lantern. As a collector, I am a reader of what I collect. I could never understand how someone could collect comics and never read one, yet we have people like this. I never collected items because of worth, but because I enjoyed them. Today because of the high price of Comics I've stopped buying (ok, once in a while I'll see something at a flea market I can not resist) But to buy new what I enjoy would be way too much, so it's much easier to enjoy the stories of yesterday over and over.