Hi! I’m Norman. I’m a retired Director of Engineering at Mattel Toys. I’m older than the typical author; although I’m still very much young at heart. I remain always optimistic in spite of having lived through many tumultuous events since the 1930’s, right into today’s most interesting political and world events.

I always wanted to be a writer. I wrote quite a lot in high school and my first year of college at Ohio University in Athens Ohio while studying journalism, but I never succeeded in having any of my short fiction published.

I dropped out of college for a year and worked in my father’s marketing research corporation for a year prior to deciding to make a career in the Army while pursuing a BS Mechanical Engineering for four years at Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Pa. a Philadelphia suburb. PMC at the time was one of six so-called tin colleges graduating 2nd lieutenants. The original military school closed many years ago and reopened as significantlly expanded Widener University.

Following 22 weeks additional training at the Basic Infantry Officer School and Airborne School in Fort Benning, Ga., I was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii. After twenty-one months of active service, I was released from active duty as a 1st Lieutenant and returned to Reserve Status. Obviously, I did not make the Army a career choice.

I began my civilian career as a Research Engineer at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pa. I continued basic research and product development at several other corporations, became a manager of product development at two additional corporations, and a Director of Engineering at a start up computer corporation. I finally moved from NJ to California to join Mattel and retired as one of several Directors of Engineering. During my career, my writing was almost all technical in nature.

I returned to NJ in retirement. I’m a widower and was married for forty-nine years to, Jacqueline; a wonderful woman and my best friend for nearly 50 years. I have one surviving daughter and four grandchildren. I moved from southern NJ to Boonton, an historic small town thirty miles west-north-west of New York City and began writing again.