S. J. Ferrandi, in addition to being a father, poet and educator, is a full time commercial real estate broker and land developer currently living in the Maryland suburbs. After five years of studying to be a Catholic priest under the Redemptorists Fathers, where he had planned on running an orphanage, he left the seminary and entered Towson State University where he earned his degree in journalism. He spent five years as a magazine reporter before joining his family’s construction company that specialized in restoring houses of worship throughout the mid-Atlantic area. He rose throug more...