Tom Nussbaum is a retired Seattle high school special education teacher living in Ajijic, Mexico. His works include three novels, Completing The Course, The Boy in The Book, and The Dark Blue Heart, and a memoir, An "H" of a Life. He is a frequent contributor to Ajijic's monthly English-language magazine El Ojo del Lago. His writing can be absurdly silly or deathly serious. Frequently they are both. He describes himself as "the silliest serious man you'll ever meet."