And you may ask yourself, "Well, how did I get here?"

I grew up on Long Island, which really doesn't offer much by way of explanation. I attended Columbia University and earned a B.A. in English. While friends attended law school or business school, I became a paralegal at a prominent New York law firm and determined that the law was not my calling. I therefore returned to Columbia and earned an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing. 

While there, I was awarded a Teaching Assistantship and taught Logic & Rhetoric to Columbia College and Engineering freshman for three semesters. I also worked on Wall Street, word processing at night. And in the midst of this, I fell in love and got married. 

As I finished my Master's Thesis, a coming of age novel I vow one day to rework, my wife became pregnant. (Notice the judicious use of the passive voice.) Graduation, thus, coincided with a pressing need for paying work. I, therefore, eschewed writing in favor of a more immediately lucrative career combining my teaching and word processing skills; I became a technical writer and trainer of Microsoft Word. From there it was only a short hop to help desk and then to programming. I worked as a programmer in another prominent New York law firm for more than ten years, and ultimately ended up managing their helpdesk. 

Moving from the Upper West Side of Manhattan to Connecticut at the end of 2001 provided me with more personal time (on the train) than I'd had in years. I seized the opportunity and began writing again, and have managed to produce two novels for which I am currently seeking publication.

I enjoy travel, having been in recent years to Italy, Turkey, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, and many parts of the United States. In 2006, my family and I traveled to the Galapagos and the Amazon, and in 2008, we did a whirlwind tour of New Zealand in an RV.  In March 2009, we took our first cruise, docking in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic.