I like to be introduced as “a lover of God, husband to one, father of five.” I am also a grandfather to five beautiful children. I think that pretty much sums up the important things in my life, the things that make life worth living every day.

Now that I’m retired, I spend most of my time working with our church’s men’s ministry, leading various groups throughout the week and planning men’s events. I love teaching and I love writing. Both are similar. Both teaching and writing are about using words to move the people’s hearts. That’s all I really want to do. Spur people on to love God and get to know him really, really well!

I used to be a professor. (I’m retired now.) And as a professor I wrote a lot. Dozens of published articles for scientific journals and conferences. Even a few newsletter articles here and there as well. But that’s not the writing I want to do. I want to write creatively. I want to write without being criticized for using words without precise mathematical semantics. I want to write where words make passages flow and the sound of the word in the sentence can be as important as its meaning. I want to write to inspire, to uplift, and to just help my readers feel just a little bit better.