About the Author:

While many nonfiction writers have a deep experience with a specific field, the author has interests in and experience from many different fields. This experience, combined with his wife’s experience as a social work professor, has widened his synthesis capabilities, i.e., the combining of often diverse areas of knowledge into a new, coherent whole.                

His formal education includes an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering with a minor in business from Marquette University. After four years as a U.S. Marine, serving as a communications officer and a veteran of Vietnam, he completed a master’s degree in English literature at the University of Hawaii.

In his work career, he gained business experience over a 15-year period with a large industrial instrument company doing technical writing, public relations, and product management. Then, for over 20 years, he has been an entrepreneur, learning the joys and travails of being a cofounder of three start-up companies that pioneered research, development, and marketing of patented microwave technology for in-line, analytical measurements that help optimnize industrial process operations.

Raised as a Catholic and educated in Catholic schools by Dominican nuns, Christian Brothers and Jesuits, he began a wider exploration of religion and spirituality in his 50s. Since then, he has for many years studied and practiced in both Christian Centering Prayer and Zen Buddhist meditation groups. In support of these practices, he has been a volunteer with hospice patients and prisoners. After seeing that money and possessions didn’t lead to happiness, he wrote his first book Kings Without Thrones: How They Control Us; How to Break Free in 2020.

Happily, his experience also includes being married for more than 50 years and helping to raise and learn from his wonderful daughters and grandchildren.