Author-publisher of Blue Logic, native of California, graduate of Stanford, then Princeton (PhD), wears several other hats: playwright, computer programmer, mathematician and amateur composer-song writer. His most recent books include: The Mysterious Origins of Chess and Through the Eye of A Needle: Studies from An Ancient Hermetic Teaching. He and his wife live in a rural community near Sacramento with their bi-polar cat Cosita. The author has two children from a previous marriage, both young adults living on the East Coast.