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

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I just finished watching the Super Bowl where physically impressive men pounded on each other for the right to be called football champions. On either side of the field there were about a hundred guys each earning at least six figure incomes, if not millions. At the same time, there were teachers all around the country preparing for an early start to another week of guiding and forming the minds that will one day decide the direction of our country and our world. Very few of them will earn six figure incomes. Teaching is perhaps the most underrated and undervalued profession in our socie...

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