I am an antiquarian bookseller and free-lance writer living near Albany in Upstate New York. I have a bachelor's and master's degree in Literature. My interests are reading, writing, history, politics and religion.

I am also interested in the law. I am specially interested in reform of Child Protective Services and Family Court Law.

I have had articles published in The Baltimore Sun, The Bangor Daily News, The Sunday Gazette (Schenectady, NY), The Recorder (Amsterdam, NY), The Buzz (Amsterdam, NY), Power Boating, Book Quote, Biblio Unbound, Mohawk Valley USA, PCM and The Rainbow.

Currently, I am a regular contributor to the opinion page of the Sunday Gazette.

My passion is ...

Reading, Writing, Politics, History, Law, Literature & Religion

I know too much about ...

how little I know.

My parents always told me ...

I would think differently when I grew up, and they were right.

My childhood ambition ...

to eat and not be eaten.

Why I write ...

(read my article on the subject).

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"Here, Take this over to Dillingham's Book Bindery," said the man at the State Employment Office in Bangor, Maine, as he handed me a job referral.

I walked down Harlow Street to Franklin where the bindery was located. My palms were sweaty and my heart danced a tango as I climbed the worn stairs to the second floor. An elderly man showed me around the place. The building was old; a 19th-century workshop straight out of Dickens. The air was heavy with a sweet but harsh smell. Four or five women and a couple of men were bent over their work. I don't remember a thing the old man said. When h...

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