Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (I AM CANADIAN) and Grew up in New York and New Jersey (ages 7 to 17)

Attended Sparta High School (NJ) and graduated from St. Patrick's High School in Halifax

Post Secondary Studies:

	Art History, Design History, and Intaglio (printmaking) at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
	English and French at Université Sainte-Anne
	Chaucer, Shakespeare, and the Pre-Raphaelites while at graduate school at the University of Calgary
	B.Ed. from the University of Calgary
	Computer Programming at the Bank of Montreal Technical Training Institute
	Business Communication and Business Law at St. Mary's University

Jobs I've held:  cashier, pot washer, busboy, warehouseman, computer operator, waiter, bar manager, bilingual tour guide, bank manager, technical analyst, project coordinator, systems analyst, sales representative, consultant, account executive, operations manager, regional manager, regional director, library student assistant, and student navigator.

Where I've lived: Halifax (NS), Westbury (NY), Sparta (NJ), Calgary (AB), Wainwright (AB), Concession (NS), Church Point (NS), Toronto (ON), and Fall River (NS).

Some Favorites (not complete, and in no particular order):

	Music: Bach, Mozart, Hayden, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waitts, early Rolling Stones, early Jethro Tull, Janis Joplin, The Band, Grateful Dead, delta blues, and bluegrass
	Novelists: John Updike, Thomas Hardy, Robertson Davies, Samuel Butler, Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, George Elliot, Hermann Hesse, Harper Lee, J.D. Salinger, Tim O'Brien, and John Irving.
	Poets: Shakespeare, Keats, Rossetti, Tennyson, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Cohen, Whitman, Yeats, and Frost.
	Playwrights: Shakespeare, Beckett, and Wilde.

Hobbies and Interests:

Baseball, running, guitar, taekwondo (earned a green belt, long ago), astrophotography (photography of celestial objects), sketching, and winemaking.