I was raised in a Catholic family in a mostly Lithuanian-American section of Scranton, Pennsylvania. By Catholic standards my life has not been a holy one, and I have not held true to the standards of the Catholic Church. Let us just say that my father and a number of others would say that I have just not measured up. My father particularly has said as much.

Yet I do believe that God has found me. I do not know why this has happened. Certainly there are many more faithful, obedient, worthy, and intelligent people. Yet I have had, to my mind, an incredible number of "coincidences" in...

39 Social Poems speaks to the issues, concerns and light heartedness of many controversial issues. Politics, religion, education, love, anger and

unforgiveness have all found a place in 39 Social Poems. Places in which I have lived and people that I have met, churches that I feel could have done more to address social issues inspired me to write poetry to express my inner thoughts about issues that concern me.