I'm an animal addict, plain & simple, and have been since early childhood.

While my herp experience as a kid mostly consisted of collecting the local frogs, toads & lizards around my house in Texas, I was bound to a strict "no snakes in the house" rule by my parents. As soon as opportunity arose, I quickly amassed a collection of boas, native colubrids & various lizards.

After several years of being a locality red-tailed boa snob, I "saw the light" with bloods in Fall 2000, at which point they quickly became my primary focus. Now, in addition to my bloods & short-tails, I keep black-headed pythons, womas, Angolan pythons, spotted & Stimson's pythons, Trans-Pecos ratsnakes, graybanded kingsnakes and black milksnakes.

While there are easily another 50 some-odd species I'd love to have at any given time, my work at NERD (New England Reptile Distributors) fortunately allows me to get hands-on with most of them, without becoming overwhelmed by too many critters.

In my "spare time" I enjoy classical dressage, cooking, working out, raising peach-faced lovebirds, reading & field herping.

Who says nice girls can't like snakes, too?