About

I spent my childhood in Georgia and youth in Missouri, but have lived in Illinois for most of my adult life. Brief transitional years were spent in California and Florida. Attending seven different schools in three different states from grades 6 through 10 did not leave me with scars at all. 

For more years than I want to acknowledge, I taught college courses in mass media, communication, film, and scriptwriting.

I’ve written and directed for the stage. Several of my one-act plays actually managed to win playwriting awards.  

Among my favorite writers are Kurt Vonnegut, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eckhart Tolle, Malcolm Gladwell, George Carlin, Paddy Chayefsky, Fredrik Backman, Margaret Atwood, Linda Ellerbee, and Don Henley.

I’m married and we currently reside in the Chicago area.

A list of novels that have most impressed me includes To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.