Michael was born in Beaumont, Texas in 1959. In early 1963, his family transferred to Bellaire, Texas, a small city encompassed by Houston. He spent his grammar school years in Bellaire. In 1972 his family moved to Fort Bend County, Texas where he attended John Foster Dulles Junior High and High School in Sugarland. After high school he moved to Lubbock, Texas where he attended Texas Tech University and studied Horticulture and Entomology. After attending Texas Tech University he moved back to the greater Houston area and went to work with a large oil field service company. In 1983 he met and married his lovely wife Janie, who has always been a loving and wonderful inspiration to him. In the early 1980s Houston's economy was in turmoil. The unemployment rate was setting records so they decided as a family that Michael should go back to school. In the spring of 1985, he enrolled at Rice Aviation in Houston. After attending Rice Aviation they moved to Kingwood, Texas where Michael went to work at Houston Intercontinental Airport now known as George W. Bush. Michael worked ten years for a major commercial airline in Houston. It was during this time, in 1993, that their wonderful son Michael was born. In 1997 Michael moved his family to Lubbock, Texas were he works as an RF engineer for a small group of radio stations that is part of a national chain. Michael has written many stories and submitted several, but could not generate the interest to acquire a publisher. In the summer of 2001, Janie and Michael made the decision to home school their son Michael. While home schooling their son, Michael read a countless variety of children's books to his son. At this time, Michael realized with a little effort writing children's books was achievable. Michael has been very blessed in his life, having the skills to work in many different fields and being very talented in many ways. Since 1997 his interest in writing has grown until it now takes up a major portion of his life. The satisfaction he receives from writing is far superior to anything else he has done in his life.