I was born and raised in Houston, Texas but have resided in Lubbock and Beaumont, Texas,  Macon and Greater Atlanta, Georgia, Fairbanks, Alaska and now call Calgary, Alberta home. I have also lived in Quito, Ecuador, but I was less than a year old at the time.

I attended school in the Greater Houston area and received my high school diploma from North Shore Senior High School in 2001. I immediately enrolled at Texas Tech University as an Architecture and Business double major. However, I was young and could not appreciate the position I was in so I left shortly into my second semester.

 I then entered Real Estate school but never got my license in that either, though I did complete all the required coursework. I then got married, divorced, bought a house and a car, lived in Georgia, and began what could have been a life-long career in the medical field doing insurance billing.

In 2007 my life changed, I was labeled. I was diagnosed with a mental illness called Bipolar Disorder. I had to reevaluate what my life was. Bipolar mood swings respond viciously to emotions, specifically stress. I am a social person and naturally inquisitive. In Georgia as a medical-biller I was far from family and friends, not being challenged intellectually, and not doing anything I truly enjoyed. All of this was creating stress.

I decided to move home and go back to school. I moved in with some friends who had room in Greater Houston, just a few miles from most of my family, and enrolled at San Jacinto Community College (San Jac). Over the next two years I worked a variety of part-time jobs, stayed in school full time, and changed majors many times. I was attempting to find my passion...and I succeeded.

When I was a child, I was fascinated by the sky. My grandmother bought the three of us, my brother, sister, and I, a telescope. My dad bought us another. He also got me a subscription to Astronomy Magazine and The Planetary Report. I still have some issues of these publications. Then at San Jac I needed to choose a natural science course to take, and I immediately signed up for physics.

In Dr. Goains Physics 1401 and 1402 courses I learned that there are still jobs in the space field, and not just engineering. There are astronomers and astrophysics, there are astrogeologists and astrobiologists, there are private sector companies made up of all different professionals that just want to get into space. I could live in space, just like I wanted to when I was a kid.

Now I am realistic, and I know I will most likely not physically live in outer space, but I want to live my life in the sky. I want to observe, study, and theorize what is happening outside the Earth's atmosphere. I want to help humans reach asteroids, and the moons of the outer planets. I want to help them develop ways to travel faster and survive longer, so that in my lifetime humans will colonize the outer solar system.

I became a physics major and transferred to Lamar University to complete my bachelor's degree work. After arriving at Lamar I have been advised by some truly brilliant instructors and have expanded my academic work to include a dual major with mathematics and a minor in space science. I graduated in May 2014.

In early 2014 I was accepted to the University of Alaska's Ph.D. program in Space Physics. Once again my Bipolar Disorder got in my way and I was unable to handle the 90+ hour weeks required of a doctoral program. 

Then another bump in my road occurred in September of 2016 when my father was diagnoses with Alzheimer's Dementia. I stopped working for a time to care for him and his estate, but I continued living my passion by reading physics news, journals when I can get my hands on them, and coding a bit in my free time. I also re-fell-in-love with gaming, just like when I was a even younger kid than the one who loves space.

For the last couple decades I have been enthralled by Harry Potter, and I had found a new-to-me game that would allow me to create a wonderful world: Minecraft. I started building JKR's Wizarding World in Minecraft in 2017. In early 2018 my brother suggested I share my project on YouTube, and my role as YouTube Content Creator was born.

In early 2024 I tipped my toes into the world of Live Streaming on YouTube and Twitch. Now in 2025 I have learned that I like games in which you garden, mine, forage resources and craft things useful and beautiful from them. I have experience with this in The Sims franchise, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Dwarf Fortress and Medieval Dynasty so these are the games I will be featuring at the start of this season.