This is a brief bio about me. I grew up in a small town in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. My parents ran a modest-sized resort called The Recreation Farm located in Fosterdale, NY.

I met a lot of interesting people at the Farm while growing up, many of whom were Jewish expats from Central Europe. Besides the hundred or so guests, there was the farm, with dairy cows, chickens and chores to do.

I loved nature, science, music and literature. During my teenage years, I played bass guitar in a garage band that was featured at venues such as high school dances, summer camps and bars, (if the band could be located fifty feet from the bar where alcoholic beverages were sold, since all of us band members were underage.) My favorite bands and musicians are Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Bryan Adams, the Cranberries, the Ramones, Hillsong United, Journey, Roxy Music, Peter Gabriel, the Police, and U2 just to name a few.

Some more about me. When I graduated from high school, I joined the U.S. Air Force and served for twenty years, retiring with a Master’s Degree and POC health experience, as well as experience in instruction and in program evaluation. After retiring, I took post grad courses while teaching political science as a fellow at the University of North Texas until a fulltime position opened at Grayson College, where I also retired after twenty-three years. I’ve also worked as a full-time SARS-CoV-2 contact tracer in New York State.

Following the death of the wife of my youth after almost forty-seven years of marriage, I remarried a wonderful woman who was widowed herself, and we relocated from Texas to update New York, not too far from where I grew up. I never forgot what is was like growing up in the Catskill mountains and I was eager to return. 

Major influences in my life include Billy Graham, Arthur Blessitt, John Steinbeck, James Lovelock, Jack Chick, Johann Blumhardt, and USAF Chaplain Carl T. Hawkins who mentored me as a young Christian in the USAF.

I have two sons and a daughter by my late wife Cathy. My sons live in North Central Texas and my daughter in Oklahoma. One of my sons is married and I have four grandchildren (two of whom are in college.)

On my wife’s Deena’s side, I have two step-sons who are married and nine grandchildren.

I have another blog at Watch Fire.

Please contact me if you wish.  I’ll be glad to hear from you!