I am a writer and blogger currently focusing on addiction. I am the author of two Catholic devotional booklets for people in recovery. My primary creative desire, apart from continuing the devotionals, is to write Catholic-themed spiritual fiction. I hope to explore those areas at the intersections of Faith and Reason; contemporary drama with side trips though the preternatural with rest stops in the boundaries of the afterlife. I am one of those who think there is another reality just out of the corner of your eye; you turn to look, it disappears. I try and focus on my characters as I have found that by creating interesting people I can actually sustain the writing effort. My characters need a life, and the novels they will be in help them to discover such a one as they work out their situations and each other.

So, I suppose that Catholicism, addiction recovery, reading, writing, death and the fuzzy gray areas along the borders of life are interests. Oh, I also like cats and Mac computers.

PUBLICATIONS:

September 2020: "The Glories of Sobriety." Article for Liguorian Magazine.

Article solicited by editor to illustrate the connection between faith and sobriety.:

April 2015: “Using the ‘new evangelization’ to reach out to those trapped in sin;” chapter 8 of catholic new evangelization guide: share your faith with the world, by miriam westen, editor. contribution solicited by editor for a self-published manual on spreading the gospel in the modern era.

April 2012 “The Recovery Rosary: Reflections for Alcoholics and Addicts;” through Amazon Kindle and Smashwords, Inc.; self-published devotional booklet that combined the traditional Rosary prayers with reflections and meditations.

February 2012 and December 2011 “Stations of the Cross for Alcoholics;” through Amazon Kindle and Smashwords, Inc.;self-published devotional booklet that combined the traditional Way of the Cross with reflections and meditations.