He was, in his own words, a successful manager in the oil business, living the American suburban dream. In Nov 1994, after the birth of his first son, Matthew, his beloved wife Maggy was stricken with a malignant brain tumour. After a tough fight Maggy passed away on March 23 1996. The day she was buried Bob wrote his first poem Only One Cries Now.
Two weeks after her death his employer of ten years was sold and downsized. Faced with relocation far away in an unfamilar area, Bob choose to quit and change his career and life entirely. He moved near family in the Champlain Valley and enrolled in nursing shool. He presently works as a Registered Nurse. He lives in Rouses Point, New York, with his second wife Francine, her sons and his boy Matthew.
On his second great love and second career Bob considers himself a blessed man. He welcomes your e-mail contact.
Publication credits to date:
Small Dreams - Oct 1999 anthology called In Other Words was an editor's choice - appearing in another anthology called Between Light and Darkness which will be published this summer through a publisher associated with www.poetry.com
Fathers Tears - appeared in the same anthology (In Other Words) as Small Dreams
Only One Cries Now - was published in Cliffhanger Magazine in April 1998 and has appeared in print in several hospice organization publications from Massachusetts to Oklahoma and Houston Texas
No Art - appeared in the December 1999 issue of Poetry Magazine ( Vol IV No X)
Children of Promise - appeared in the April 1999 issue of Cliffhanger Magazine
Cancer - appeared in the April 1999 edition of Words to live by - reflections of Cancer Survivors published by the FitzPatrick Cancer Center
Quebec Gathering will be published in In Between Days this coming fall
