: About Me

This striving writer is, at age 55, just now sticking his toe into the water. I have enjoyed writing since my college days in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. Much to my surprise, I discovered I had a knack for being able to write in a way that people enjoyed reading. Being a psych major gives one many opportunities to transform a dry and difficult to digest subject into something easy to swallow and worthy of a second serving.

After a 30 year career in the mental health and patient rights advocacy field, retirement has appeared on the horizon. As I embrace the new found freedoms inherent in retirement, my hope is that I can develop into a talented writer.

My passion is ...

baseball history.

I know too much about ...

the inner workings of some psychiatric hospitals.

My parents always told me ...

what they thought I needed to hear.

My childhood ambition ...

was to play professional baseball.

My favorite memory ...

the birth of our two sons.

Why I write ...

to make the reader glad he or she took the time to read what I wrote.

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

lstening to coffee house music

My first job ...

caddy at the local country club.

My best moment ...

is yet to come.

My inspiration ...

my mother and Roberto Clemente...

Religion & Spirituality > Catholicism Why I became a Catholic

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My first memory of exposure to the Catholic Church was as an elementary school student. Several of my neighborhood friends attended Catholic School. They often talked about the nuns and priests. I was intrigued about the anecdotes they shared. At that age I was even more impressed by the fact that they had so many days off from school! You see, back then many Holy Days were celebrated by closing the schools. That was my first, albeit self-serving, inkling that Catholics had some thing I wanted. Not much later, one of my Catholic friends lost his father to a severe heart attack. My mother t...

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