Born in Illinois, a veteran of the Veitnam era, and graduate of both Southern Illinois University and Illinois State University he makes his home in southern California with his wife Susan, and enjoys teaching tennis, playing music as a guitar vocalist, and writing songs, poems, and coming up with inventions like the "Dingprotector" to keep dents off of your car. He taught art in the public school system in Rockford Illinois, and shortly after came to Orange County California in 1973 where he formed a musical group called "The Other Band" and still plays for parties and events. In 1975 was int...