After decades of attempting to absorb the literature of the world (no less), Tolkien was a revelation, turning medieval sagas into entertainment with a message. As a journalist I clearly saw my social obligation to help make the world a better place, but it took half a lifetime to see that all we can ever change is ourselves, and even longer to realize that no rational decision will ever get us there. Change requires all our passion, a spellbinding story rather than a textbook of neurolinguistic processing.

2 MA, several non-fiction titles, an award for the manuscrit of a children's book from the German Schneider Verlag, participation in an anthology of poems by the German Bert Schlender Verlag, writer-in-residence in 2005 at Gunnarsstofnun, Iceland