Charlie Sloat is a native New Yorker with a B.S in mechanical enginerring, five years in corporate America and ten years of teaching high school math. He is married with a wife and two kids (5 rabbits, 9 finches, 2 dogs, and 8 fish)  None of that qualifies him to be a novelist, a brain surgeon or the host of ‘Jeopardy.'   However, given those choices, society is marginally better off if he sticks to writing.  So please do your best to support his efforts.     THE HOPE CHEST - BY ARTHUR MEDS The Exciting New Novel By Charles J.

I once won honerable mention in a Dental Health poster contest. It has been downhill ever since.