I’ve just produced my seventh video to promote my latest book and first novel, Childless, about a childless child psychologist who tries to foil a U.S. government plot to have childhood identified as a medical disorder and eliminated from the human genome through genetic engineering. This video focuses on practical tips for writing a first...Read More

This week I wrote a blog post for a website called Arts of Thought, which features articles on psyche and spirit, love and intimacy, and spiritual practices among other topics. The piece is called Neoteny: The Art of Being Young at Heart.     In my new novel, Childless, I use the concept of neoteny (Latin...Read More

I’m going to be recording You Tube videos where I discuss different aspects of my new novel, Childless.  In this video I just give some of the basics of the plot.  In future videos I’ll explore the genetic sub-plot of the story (based on human endogenous retroviruses), the neurodiverse characters that play a major role...Read More

I’m so excited that my first novel came out this week!  It’s called Childless, and tells the story of a childless child psychologist named Harvey Sumner who tries to foil a U.S. government plot to remove childhood from the human genome.  That’s right!  No more childhood!  In the future, through genetic engineering, a person will...Read More

William Shakespeare is generally regarded as the greatest writer of the English language.  All too often, though, he is taught at the secondary school level in a way that does not endear this brilliant man to high school students.  I remember being bored by Shakespeare when I was in school.  What can be done to...Read More