Robert Nicholas

I was born in 1946 - the first year of the Baby Boomers. I lived in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts most of my life - Pittsfield, Richmond and Lenox.

I graduated from the University of Mass in Amherst in 1968 with a BS in Mathematics. I did a two-year stint in the Peace Corps in the Philippines from 1968-1970 teaching high school modern mathematics. I later taught for eleven years and then became a computer programmer/analyst and eventually an MIS Director.

I currently winter in Florida and summer in upstate NY - with my 37-year-old African Gray Parrot, Little Pete. I enjoy playing piano and guitar as well as painting watercolors.

I started writing poetry when I was in my early teens. It has always brought me joy to be able to express my emotions in writing. My poems tend to be quite straightforward. You won't need a dictionary or an encyclopedia to comprehend them. I like my poems to flow easily and have the reader "experience" what I felt at the time I wrote them.