I was born in Oklahoma and my family moved to the San Pablo/Richmond Bay Area in California, in around 1952. I grew up in the best of times the ‘60s and graduated from Richmond Union High School in 1965.   I currently live in Placerville, in the California foothills.

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I worked almost every kind of job, but finally settled in and worked for the California Department of Corrections and survived there for 26 years; ending up as a Sgt Instructor.  That experience gave rise to my two published creative non-fiction books about corrections:  HOGGS: Prison Journals and HOGGS II: Prison Journals. 

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My non-dystopian science fiction novel, S.I.C.Q., is an intriguing existential exercise of man’s reaction to the discovery of alien presence in the universe. I am currently writing a sequel to S.I.C.Q., entitled, S.O.S., and when that is completed I will continue penning sequels to HOGGS and S.O.S.