A Little Bit About Me

To be born at the beginning of the Great Depression, in a small west Oklahoma town, the heart of the Dustbowl, severely dyslexic and, as it turned out, gay, isn’t the most propitious beginning.

Still, looking back through the decades, I can’t complain.

After I graduated from Weatherford high school, I attended Oklahoma City University and graduated with a double major in music and sociology, and later Boston University with a degree in theology.

I served as associate minister in Congregational Churches in Attleboro and Cambridge, Massachusetts, then took a sabbatical and vagabonded around the world.

Among my adventures, I ran a sleaze bar in St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands, taught in the bush in West Africa, attended the World Council of Churches assembly in New Deli, traveled by freighter and fell in love with Japan.

When I returned to the US, I launched a ten year career as a operatic singer.  I have sung with the Metropolitan Opera Studio and on Broadway with luminaries such as Alfred Drake, Ethel Merman, Melina Mercouri,  Girogio Tozzi and Beverly Sills. You could say, I had a brief but not stellar career.

Then I returned to the church, now The United Church of Christ and served as arts consultant on the staff of the Board for Homeland Ministers and the Amistad Research Center. That position was followed by four years as the founding executive director of the Monroe County (Key West and Florida Keys) Fine Arts Council.

Then, I moved to Merida, Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula and along with my partner, painter, Clifford Ames, bought a house where I devote my time to writing.

As a dyslexic,, I view the computer as a brain prostheses. Yet, I still need a lot of help from my partner and friends.

Contact me at:

yucatangrant@yahoo.com