I have been a country preacher, a communty mental health provider, an acadenic in a university medical center, a director of a free family counseling service in a school district, and a novelist.

I went to seminary at Boston University and was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1975. I served a small country parish for six years. During that time, I went back to school for another master's degree, this time in counseling. I left parish ministry to work in community mental health.

I trained as a marriage and family therapist and in 1986 was recruited to the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine. I was Director of the Family Therapy Training Program (Psychiatry) and Coordinator of the Psychosoical Core Curriculum and Biopsychosocial Rotation in Psychiatry (Family Medicine Residency). My focus was marriage and family therapy and medical family therapy. I got my PhD in 2000. During this period I published over sixty journal articles and co-authored two books.

I left the medical center in 2005, the same year my first novel was published, to direct the Family Support Center in our local school district. I retired in 2010.

I never thought I had the right stuff to become a fiction writer. I thought it was beyond my ability. Beyond my creative capacity. Nevertheless, I kept notes for a novel in a drawer from 1990 to 2000. They became my first novel which was published in 2005. Since then, I've had nine novels published by small, traditional publishers. My most recent is GIVE ME SHELTER, which came out in December 2022.

I have been married for over fifty years. My wife, Bonnie, and I have two married daughters and four fabulous grandchildren. In July 2023 we will welcome our fifth, a little girl, to the fold. They all live close by and we are lucky enough to see them all the time.