(from the author's web site) The basics: I was raised on the Jersey shore where I was fascinated with things like conch eggs and learning the Hebrew alphabet. We writers are an odd lot. I played at college, then enlisted in the Navy and served at Brunswick, Maine and San Diego, where I stayed for 25+ years. I now hide out in the Pacific Northwest, twenty miles from the actual location of Einstein's brain. In 2001, I was diagnosed with advanced lobular invasive carcinoma (a form of breast cancer), and have lived with this cancer ever since. It's been an interesting journey; hope you join me for the ride by reading one of my books!