I left my career in applied research and engineering to pursue writing, painting, and hiking with my dogs (with permission from the cats). The Father: America Leaves the American Century is my debut novel, and 2014 Global eBook Award winner in New Adult Fiction. The Worst of Things: America in the 21st Century is the second in this series. For me, writing is not about the usual measures of success; it’s about the message expressed through literary fiction. I am passionate about the defense of reason in our age of ever-growing unreason, realizing that reason also has limits. The Father Trilogy treats the evolution of the human condition in concert with that of modernity. Back-and-forth interactions of individuals and their movements (social, technological, religious) with the larger society and where these lead are of keen interest to me. Of keen interest because these interactions determine the trajectory of civilizations. What were inspirational ideals of founding generations also bare seeds of demise in maturity. The outcomes of human populations are not rocket science – humans are much more difficult to predict. The Father Trilogy strives to delineate this future, and the project has been a great source of motivation to study a wide range of ideas on the subject and where we all fit in. My blog can be found on Goodreads, Medium, and TheFatherTrilogy.com.