BIOGRAPHY

I was born on May 29, 1974, in the city of Buffalo, NY.  Now, although Puerto Rico was a part of the United States since 1898, and anyone born there after April of that year was a United States citizen, I was one of the few in my family to become a first generation Puerto Rican American.  I grew up in one of several small African American and Hispanic ghettos.  Trust me there is no such thing a “Ghetto Fabulous). I was lucky enough to have both my parents in my life but it didn’t make it any easier than all of the other families living in poverty.  Although poverty is a hard thing (even more so in today’s America) we all were united, despite the color of our skin or ethnicity.  I still follow that same premise to this day, to look at people in the world regardless of skin color, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and more.  In order to be respected you need to respectful.  I am a 13 time published author from books, poems to graduate papers, but let me tell you a little bit about who I am and you can learn more about my writing later on.  

I went to a Catholic school from the age of five until I was 13, (no, I am not Catholic anymore, I’m not an atheist but I don’t shun someone on what religion they are a part of unless they are using their religion as a weapon to spread hate, then I get pissed off,) went on to graduate from McKinley high school,  It was at this time that I started to really notice that something was different about me than my friends and others, but I wouldn’t know what that was until almost 20 years later.  I then went on to graduate form Medaille college were I earned a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Social Sciences with a concentration in law, then to graduate school (where my youngest son who is now 22 just graduated from) at what is now know as Buffalo State University for contemporary United States history from this country’s beginnings to the present.  I still study to this day and keep up with the ever changing times and I can’t believe how things have become.  All this BS thanks to the orange Anti-Christ that people follow like a god.  All this was around before now they just say the quiet parts out loud.  

I got married (I don’t remember what year it was but I sure as hell remember the year I got divorced).  I had been working since I was 14 years old  and while my mother did work until she became disabled I got my work ethic from my father who worked until he was 82 years old.  I became a father at 24 years old with the birth of my first son.  It was one of the greatest moments in my life.  It was a moment that I thought I could never feel again.  Luckily for me I was wrong and two years later in 2001, my second son was born and I got that feeling again.  Those are the two happiest moments in my life.  

I Could sit here and write that I was the greatest husband and father in the world but that would be a lie.  I have always had one rule in my home and that was no matter what never lie.  Again, I can’t say that I never lied because I have and I am damn good at it but trust me when I tell you this that the truth (no matter how hard it may be to hear) is always the better option.  Like most couples my ex-wife and I argued about a lot of things, the common was money.  I was making it and unlike some I believe in saving as much as you can because you never know when you going to need it.  That being said, we argued about other things and they were mostly because of me.  I had trust issues, I could change by demeanor in less than a few seconds, and the problem for me was that I didn’t know why. 

Fast forward 13 years later, n January of 2004, my mother was diagnosed with colon cancer and by the time they caught it she was already in stage four.  They tried everything but nothing was working and nothing was going to work.  Exactly one year later on January 14, 2005, at the age of 69 my mom passed away.  For anyone who knows me or has ever heard a YouTube video, a Twitch stream, read anything on Twitter or anything knows that I swear a lot and I do not hold anything back.  For whatever reason I had become an ordained minister and when you become ordained you are ordained for life.  When you read you mother her last rights, you walk away from that part of your life.

In that same year I found out that my ex-wife was cheating on me, kidnapped my children, found out that someone had been beating my oldest son, after not seeing them for 13 days, I went to court got my divorce and an uncontested full custody of them both.  I raised those two boys for the next 13 years on my own.  It is hard raising two kids on your own, hell it’s hard raising any number of kids on your own.  Whether its one child or more, I want to say to all the single parents and grandparents or whomever raised kids on your own and  for those that are doing now, you are and forever will be heroes!  

It would be in those 13 years  (at the age of 37) that I finally found out what was wrong.  I had been living all my life with depression, anxiety and a whole host of other problems that I didn’t know about.  On the first Friday of January of 2013,  I had a nervous breakdown and while I tried over and over to go back to work I couldn’t last more than 30 min before having a panic attack.  I was told I would never be able to work ever again and then after remembering something that I had blacked out for the majority of my life PTSD was added to list.  That moment is when I understood why I had trust issues and why relationships never seemed to last.  I am a survivor of abuse as a child for years and blocking it out was the only thing that got through life.   

Believe it or not that’s how my alter ego “Maximus Kane” was born.  It was The Maximus Kane that did the defending, the blocking, and the fighting.  Even though my alter ego was the one protecting me it couldn’t save from the pain of losing my father in April of 2021, and my oldest sister a month later May of 2021, to the same thing.  I lost two family members to covid within a month of each other so when I hear bullshit like it’s fake or the clubbed foot looney that is MTG wants to know if it came form a lab in Wuhan, China IDGAF.  The fact is that it came here and sun tan knew about it before the pandemic hit and chose to do nothing until it was out of control. 

 Again, I apologize for the long bio and to tell you the truth I don’t even know if anyone will get this far and read all of this to the end.  If you do and have any questions or want to know more about me, leave me a message in the contact page and I will get back to you and remember I don’t like lying so that means I don’t lie.  If you ask me something and I am comfortable answering it I will answer honestly, no matter how hard it is.