The author has lived in the U.S., Canada, China, and now resides in Taiwan. He is married and has more children, by more wives, than he cares to enumerate. His working career includes working in libraries and bookstores, land surveying, civil and electronic engineering technician, and owner of a company which provided computer and networks systems support. Late in life, he developed a severe and crippling ailment. This limited his mobility so that he returned to university and took a B.A. and M.A. in English Language Studies. Since that time, he has taught in Canada, China, and Taiwan. He also writes things.