I am a native Central New Yorker, where I earned degrees from Le Moyne College and Syracuse University, and where I worked for more than 25 years as a high school teacher in the city of Syracuse. When not writing or reading, you're likely to find me spending time with my school teacher wife, Colleen, or hiking the local trails with our dog, Sadie.
I come from a family of undersized hockey players, so tenacious people. I am fairly considered to be the black sheep of my family, but when your family name is as glowing as mine, you can wear the title shamelessly. I also come from a family of school teachers, so talkers. With age, I have tried to do more of my talking in written form, where my words are only of consequence to those who care enough to read them.
I have done many jobs in my life, from dirty, hard ones like loading tractor trailers for FedEx, to easy, lazy ones, like coaching tennis, and have a healthy respect for all work done well, or at least attempted to be. A career high school teacher and lifelong novel reader, I have written plenty, but fiction only recently. When I was young, I wanted to be a writer, which I think is why I never became one. Somewhere along the line my perspective changed, and that desire was replaced by the simple desire to write, which I do now with more pleasure than ever.