The Boring Bullet Version

Writer for 60 years: letters, journals, poetry, romance novels, detective stories, rhetoric texts, memoirs, clustering and scribbling expository essays with my students on the blackboard
BA in psychology, University of Iowa, 1965
Fellowship to Writer’s Workshop, University of Iowa, MFA in English in 1967, thesis The Palakian Monologues and Other Poems
Publication of a couple dozen poems
English professor for 30 years at City Colleges of Chicago, where I taught 12 different courses
30 semester hours beyond my master’s degree, in pedagogy, whole brain learning, group dynamics, critical thinking, writing across the curriculum, getting students involved in the learning process, etc.
Took classes at the Institute of Psychoanalysis and the Jung Institute
Authored scripts for computer tutorials
Created Communications 121-where I taught transactional analysis, active listening, Gestalt psychology, general semantics, etc.
Finalist for Teacher of the Year
Part time cablevision and real estate salesperson (Member of Searl’s Realty Million Dollar Club)
Owner and operator of a successful small business
Volunteer work includes Meals on Wheels, Hospice and teaching prisoners meditation
Awarded the Elder Whitehead Achievement Award at Calvary Baptist Church in Chicago
Co leader of the Hattiesburg Mississippi Writer’s Guild
Spinner of true yarns for a couple of years at the Poplaville Story Tellers Guild
One of the facilitators at the New Orleans Men’s Group (retreats on shadow work and betrayel)
Member of the Mississippi Writer’s Guild