About Me

I’m an education consultant/specialist (former NYC elementary school teacher) by trade but also a tech enthusiast, an avid reader, the occasional writer, a super movie-goer, a private pilot and also a photographer. I’m into a great deal of things, my mind always preoccupied and trying to be stimulated. I get bored very easily so I dabble here and there on everything. If I had to narrow my interests down to only two or three, I guess it would boil down to writing, photography and films.

If I had the money I would travel the world (or find a job that would pay me to travel!). I try to travel to the Dominican Republic and France every other year and will try to post about those locations as much as I can. My job takes me to different places across the country at times so if I see anything worthwhile I will snap away with my trusty camera or iPhone and then write/post about it.

The is my first blog on WordPress and I’m having fun writing it. Unfortunately I’m very busy and sometimes don’t get to update it as often as I would like nor respond to the many great comments. After joining the Post-a-Week challenge/Weekly Photo Challenge several years ago, I’ve become a lot better at writing more often (I was so saddened to see it no longer exists). I have also taken the opportunity to read other posts from the WordPress community and really enjoy connecting with my fellow bloggers.

I hope you enjoy what little space I have on the web here. Thanks for dropping by.

Why Cyan Skies?

I chose the name Cyan Skies for my blog mainly because of my daughter. Several years ago I became a first time father to a wonderful little girl whom I named Cyan. While changing my color printer cartridge, the name cyan popped up. Brilliant! Even though we had decided on a girl name prior to her birth, I immediately fell in love with the name I had accidentally discovered. I decided right there and then that I would have a daughter and that she would be called Cyan (we kept the sex of the baby a surprise).

After she was born, I felt that my life has been enriched tremendously by her. I was more positive and the future seemed even brighter. My life completely revolved around this little girl and I was a better man for it, thus the spin on the term, “sunny skies”.

As a pilot, the term sunny skies always meant that it was just another great opportunity to fly and that made me very happy.

Who doesn’t like sunny skies?

Logo & Gravatar Design

My childhood friend and partner in crime was Hector Collazo. He was an extremely talented and well accomplished artist, having worked for Marvel and DC Comics as well as other publishing companies. Despite doing some phenomenal illustration work, he’s best known for his inking prowess, having worked on X-men, Daredevil, and Wolverine to name a few. Later in his career he ventured into computer coloring, using Photoshop and Flash software on his beautiful Wacom Cintiq tablet.

Hector, Stan Lee, Timothy

He designed my blog’s logo as well as provide two Gravatar images which I use not only for this site, but for LinkedIn and Facebook profile images as well as business cards. My watermark image of my signature was also created by him. Cool, huh?

He was funny, sarcastic, blunt, caring and most of all, a great friend. Everyone always commented on his artistic abilities but it was when he put down the pen or brush and stepped away from his drawing board where the man really shined. His love of sci-fi, specifically the Star Wars films and Doctor Who, were unparalleled. Politically, we were on opposite sides of the spectrum but our calm and thoughtful conversations on politics could be a model for how real politicians should debate. He also loved video games tremendously and we would speak for hours about a certain design, piece of music or general gameplay. We would speak every day on nothing and on everything.

He always advocated for me to write and it was because of him that I started to seriously consider writing for a living some day. Our brainstorming sessions were stuff of legends. In one night we would typically flesh out story lines, characters and worlds in a back-and-forth, tennis-like bull session that would put mainstream Hollywood to shame. He would later draw what we came up with and let me tell you, they were literally pieces of art! We were a perfect team. I have at least 5 really good intellectual properties floating around in my head that we created together.

Sadly, Hector passed away on November 18th, 2012. I am still devastated by this loss and my life has never been the same again. Not a day goes by where I don’t think about him. We had known each other since the 4th grade and when you know someone for such a very long time, their absence is extremely pronounced. I lost a friend and a true brother.

Hector, requiescat in pace my friend.