My background has been words for over 50 years. Staring with a journalism degree from Northern Illinois University, I quickly used my skills to make words my livelihood as professional editor and writer for a variety of trade magazines with an expertise in the petroleum marketing industry. 

 

Most writers know that once words are part of their DNA, they never leave. I’m one of those. “Teacher” was added to my resume and for 16 years I taught in the Chicago Public School system with an emphasis on history and civics. 

 

Picking up a book by an author I followed, I fell in ... deeply in. And an idea was seeded. It was time to add author to my name. The idea for The Founders’ Plot gushered like a new oil well bursting through the earth. I was excited.

 

I’m a proud Marine Corps veteran, still calling Chicago home and enjoying the glory of the Magnifi­cent Mile and Lakeshore Drive running along Lake Michigan. If you are in Chicago, make sure you go to my favorite spot ... the Maxwell Street Station and order the mouth-watering polish sausage and pork chop sandwiches covered with grilled onions!

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I’m honored to donate proceeds from all my book sales to the Tunnels to Towers and Fisher House foundations for disabled veterans and first responders.