"A Still Moment", original music by John Hinson. The perfect baby gift.

I am a happily married man of 12 years, dad of 3, and I play the piano.

Growing up on a farm in Skagit Valley, Washington, I began studying piano at age 5 and continued to study classical, classical composition, and improvisation through high school and into college.

Classical composition has always been my favorite. My best classical work to date was a Rhapsody in C# Min. To hear an excerpt, click here.

Playing the piano has been in my family for generations. My great-great grandparents did shows in saloons throughout the old west. She danced and he played the piano. My favorite possession is sheet music passed down through the family which you can see here. My biggest motivation for pursuing music is to keep the family tradition rolling.

During my first year of college, I met Melissa, my wife of 12 years. After meeting Melissa, my productivity on things unrelated to her dropped considerably. But we DID have three funny kids Amelie, Isaac and Eli...that was productive.

I have had all sorts of ridiculous day jobs - ski patroller, roofing inspector, reporting analyst, web guy. There hasn't been a huge gidaddle of time to write music but over the course of my "career" I have managed to complete 2 CD's with the third due for release October 1st-ish, 2007-ish.

This is me sitting in a field of grass, with my signature over the top of it. Sort of like "hey, here is a picture of some piano guy with his autograph on it".

An abstract-like black-and-white picture of me playing the piano - or posed to LOOK like I am playing the piano. You will never know for sure. Notice my interesting goatee silhouette. I have decided to grow my hair long (including facial hair). Mainly so I can be like Isaac who has decided to grow his hair long to avoid haircuts. Amen to that Isaac!

Here we are at Cannon Beach, OR. I look like a dad just having "fun in the waves with his kids" but what I am ACTUALLY doing is instructing them on the perils of rip tides and rogue waves. I have been obsessed with safety after becoming a Wilderness EMT and learning how screwed you really can become. My lesson here - when the waves come, run like the dickens.

And so we run.

And then sit very far away from the imminent danger.

Here are the kids posing for last years Christmas card. Kids and Christmas card photos...gggeeeessshhhh. Melissa's arch nemesis.

Here is Eli pretending to be a Pokemon.

Next time you go camping, bring ski goggles - it will keep the smoke out of your eyes.

Haircut, comes with matching horse.

Amelie and Isaac decided to bury Eli and shape him into a beautiful mermaid.

Camping in Flagstaff. Not sure why Amelie is skipping instead of carrying wood.

Isaac on his BMX bike. Some punk kids stole it.

I was riding this same trail trying to show the kids and their cool friends how to get some huge air on their dirt jump. About half-way to the jump, the front handle bars wriggled loose, turned an abrupt 90 degrees and mockingly threw me off the bike.

The neighborhood kids didn't think I was so cool.

I have a history of falling off of bikes in non-cool ways. More on that later.

Melissa

At Cannon Beach

Melissa...again

It starts like this..."what?!?!? you're not dressing up for halloween?!? But you have to dress up!".

Fine.

Melissa made that adorable costume when she was pregnant with Amelie. Pretty sure I look better in it.

Look at me!

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