With the new millenium, I moved away from the nine to five and into what was supposed to be retirement,  Simultaneously, an unexpected impetus excited my life: I wanted to find out whether I could write fiction. Writing itself was no particular problem since I had been successful in turning out a book on executive search, another on cross-cultural learning and over 30 professional articles. But fiction? Yes, I had my mother and her several books for young teens as a model and I was a reader of all kinds of fiction. Could I now turn what I knew second-hand into my own style of creativity? One day I sat down to answer that question and eventually found the answer in Hidden Impact (2005), Patriot Schemes (2006), Peace Corpse (October 2008) Hard Cache (2010), Dire Salvation (2012), Fractured Legacy (2014) and, now, Second Growth (2017) - as well as in muliple poems. Pleasure in the daily process of writing only increases. What a bonus!      

I studied international relations; was a teacher and educational administrator; director of education programs, Peace Corps, Colombia, and of the American-Russian Center, Anchorage, Alaska. I have lived in ten US States and have had professional experience in fifteen countries. When not writing, I still engage regularly in two lifelong avocations: jazz trumpet playing and choral singing.