I am a retired social worker who started writing Historical Fiction. Many characters based on my observation of people over these years. I was born in Baltimore, MD, and have lived the last 25 or so years in the south eastern Vermont area. I have been very active in community theater since high school. I have a degree in Political Science, and I like to put a little politics and history in my work. I have traveled to Europe and Asia but never to Ireland where my second book is partly set. But I love history and Irish rebel music and the Irish bars on Long Island. I have also never been to Malta nor Rome, where my fourth book is set, but I have good guide books from the era. I have been to Venice twice. I have been to Long Island (first and second books) where my wife's family lived and to Puerto Rico and Key West where my third book was set.I also freelance with articles on the arts and interesting people in the local papers. My short story "The Kids Won't Leave" appeared in the fall 2020 "Two Hawks Quarterly" literary journal.