I was drawing lines in the sandbox as a tow-headed four-year-old before I spoke my first words, yet words have been my life and professions. Retiring in 2009 I wrote and self-published my roller-coaster memoir, since revamped and reimagined, and began to also write poetry, essays, and stories.I had a long IT & Energy professional career in public service. In 2012, I started weekly Hamilton Creative Writers on for writers to share, critique work, and learn tips, which was on Zoom during Covid. Since 2014 over 260 of my essays on spiritual solutions to humanity's problems have appeared on bahaiteachings.org. and I self-published 200 in two volumes, Solving the World's Titanic Struggles. My blog WriteWithAuthority.blogspot.com contains writing insights I've gained (or stolen) over many years. Started ABLiA Media LLC company in 2013 to help writers edit, polish, format, and publish their works. I live in central New Jersey with my wife of fifty years and we have two accomplished children, one an author himself, his wife also. Our daughter is a candle-making impressario. My ten-year-old granddaughter, a filmaker, has had 745,000 likes on her YouTube show, and our grandson was born in 2022. My longsuffering wife is an educator, cheerleader, supporter, and the love of my life. I firmly believe everyone should share their story.Read more about this authorRead less about this author