The Internet is our last refuge. I jumped in, in 1989, to the world of the computer. Kicking and screaming mind you… I was (am) an artist and up to then had made fun of my Geek friends. Until the day I met a Mac and in 20 minutes saw what this would do for ART.

I returned to university for 10 years in 1995 - knocked down 2-99/100ths degrees. Two online… with the PhD in limbo per running out of student loan! I have had online businesses since 2000. My last ‘korporate’ mess was Sprint webmaster in Kansas City, 2000-01.

I really DO believe that the Internet is our last place of sanctuary, our harbor, our fortress so to speak… not to mention a safety valve for communication and business. It’s mostly quiet “up here” and I need that haven in this crazy world! I publish. A lot. Articles. Books. And I design… arts, graphics, animation, Web sites, book art.

In academics and career, I have helped build the Internet we know. If ever there was a tool that could help heal a globe, this is it. Of course, it also can be used for hate and crime… but that’s why so many have been called here… to stand in the gap. As a person with disability, this armchair view allows me to go where I wish, do what I wish, and interact with an entire globe.

We now live in THE age of information. Our mission impossible, should we decide to accept it, is to tame the beast.