What a wonderful life! From chemistry teaching and research to teaching literature to studying theology to writing fiction. Mixed in, there were and are church workshops and committees. And, of course, a wonderful wife, amazing daughters and sons-in-law, and talented grandchildren. Granddaughter Amelia is my cover designer.

The road has gone from a childhood in Massachusetts and Maine to The University of New Hampshire (B.S.) to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D.) to University of Toledo (Professor Emeritus), including one year as Visiting Professor at Michigan State University, to Trinity University in San Antonio TX (Faculty Without Rank) to the Arizona desert. Yes, from beginning to end the move is west and there is quite a temperature difference between the beginning and the present.

My chemistry teaching ranged from a preparatory course and a course for nonscience majors to inorganic courses at the advanced and doctoral level. At Trinity University, I also taught First Year Seminar a number of times. Four times the topic used mystery novels as a vehicle for important topics and three times used Harry Potter. The topics using mystery novels were 1. Science; 2. Religion; 3. Eccentrics and Misfits. The Harry Potter seminars considered the writing of the novel in the first half and the moral issues raised in the second half.

I have been active in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) at the local level in the churches where I was a member and mid-council levels in Mission Presbytery, Presbytery of the Grand Canyon and on the Presbyteries’ Cooperative Committee on Examinations for Candidates.