Bill Simmons spent sixteen years as a Baptist minister in the UK before realizing he should enter the world rather than always trying to escape from it. He has worked as a youth officer in the London Youth Service, a teacher in higher education, and an independent consultant and trainer in community development issues. Married for twenty-three years to a lovely Hoosier lady, he has worked for the past fifteen years as a mental health worker in a group home for troubled adolescents.