I'm an artist. I've tried hard to be other things and managed to be very good at them, but my heart is in the arts, and I can't be anything else. I am foremost a child of God, and then an artist, a husband, a father, a teacher, a renaissance man. But all these other things in light of the first.

I write, I draw, I paint, I act, I make music, I sculpt, I seek joy. God is good, His gifts are abundant, His grace is sufficient. Partnered to Sheri for 25 years, papa to Bethannie (9) and Carrie (7). Master to an ungrateful mongrel: Zowie the Great Lummox, of the deceptively small puppy paws.

Please visit Doug's Imagination, which is a work in progress, just like all the rest of my life.

A note about the Guestbook graphics: You know I love the glamour stuff, but out here in Dairy Farm, Ohio, dial-up is still our only internet option. Those lovely pictures just take forever to load! So keep posting them, but please don't mind if I delete the old ones. Love ya!