My Bio

      My name is Bernard Howe and I grew up in a small Midwestern town in Illinois. My mother taught me to make up limericks when I was a young boy growing up and learning about her Irish heritage. I loved the rhyming and she and I would make a game of it. Then I grew up and got out of school and joined the navy. I stopped writing poetry for many years, then I got married and moved to Arizona where we raised 2 children. I work in the construction industry, with a company that used to be in the Hi-Tech field. Now since the industry has slowed down we have branched off into other area's. I'm a project manager / estimator and I also run the autoCAD department.

      I began to write poetry again in 1999 after recovering from prostate cancer surgery. I started looking into different types of poetry as a curiosity type of thing. I found it very interesting and decided to try my hand at some of them and put them on my web site so maybe I could give the incentive to others to branch out. I have been fortunate to have a few poems published. I get a request every now and then to use a poem of mine. I never refuse anyone a poem; I just like knowing which ones they like.

      I began by writing western poetry or cowboy poems about the old west because of my living in Arizona. I enjoyed hearing and learning about the life of a cowboy. I used a pen name of Sonoran Sam for a while. I try to be versatile in my writing and about 2 years ago I started to try my hand at a few short stories. The one about Alaska is my true life adventure of working on the trans-Alaskan pipe line.

      I got into web development in 1997 also as I wanted a way to post my genealogy that I have worked on for many years. And later I wanted to post my poetry as I started to collect quite a few poems. As I get older in life and my job profession as a Construction professional, I plan on writing many more, and with a little luck I may even get to publish them in a book of all my own poetry.