I am pleased to currently serve as the Cultural Relations Steward here on Helium. I believe that culture is what people share to show that they belong to each other. And the more people we share our culture with, the more we grow together as a human family.

My background is quite varied and diverse. I attended a private college prep boarding school with president's and senator's sons and later sold frozen meat door-to-door on the streets of Chicago. I spent three years at Northwestern University and later drove a cab on and off for 5 years.

My writing has mostly been corporate, as an instructional designer for a Fortune 100 company. I have had poetry published in 2 magazines years ago and once hosted a local radio talk show.

I was married with 3 children by the time I finally finished my degree in economics, made possible as part of a mutual separation agreement between myself and my first wife.

I have tried my hand at selling insurance, vending machines, the aforementioned meats and solar-powered water heaters.

I have dabbled in stand-up comedy, bodybuilding, creative writing, community activism and photography.

I am currently married to the most spirited woman in the world who is homeschooling my youngest child, my 11-year old son. She is on a personal journey to walk again after using a wheelchair the last 18 years due to a car accident.

My passion is ...

My wife

I know too much about ...

Cleveland Browns football

My parents always told me ...

to clean my plate or I won't get dessert.

My childhood ambition ...

to get dessert.

My favorite memory ...

birth of my daughter

Why I write ...

To stave off dementia

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting by Lynn Grabhorn

My first job ...

Working in my father's bakery.

My best moment ...

posing almost naked in front of a crowd of strangers.

My inspiration ...

My wife

Jobs & Careers > Office Politics Pros and cons of cubicles

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The Cubicle Jungle, Cube Farm, the Cubicle Corral, the Land of Cloth and Steel Walls, Cube Nation. All names for the ubiquitous office phenomenon of workspaces created by propping movable, chest-high walls together in squares. Usually, there is just enough room for a desk, chair, computer and file cabinet. This is the kind of place in which so many of us spend forty or more hours of our lives. With so many businesses using them, they must be a good idea, right? Let's take a few minutes to look at the pros and cons of this modern workplace environment that so many of us call our home aw...

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