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Hello and welcome to my humble web page.

To introduce myself, I am an American who got bored and set out to find adventure. I started in Egypt and then Turkey for a total of about a year and a half before settling in the quiet and peaceful Sultanate of Oman. It was a wonderful life, but after seven years it, too, grew boring. So I set out to find adventure again. I moved to Kabul, Afghanistan, where I taught English at the American University of Afghanistan.

In truth, the security restrictions make Kabul generally boring as well (interspersed with occasional suicide bombings.) However, the culture was fascinating, the students were (and still are) amazing. After 8 years, I finally moved on to Tanzania where I taught English at St. Constantine's International School. There's something amazing about chasing monkeys out of your house (or classroom) and being able to do weekend camping trips to some of the most amazing safari destinations in the world. I ultimately decided to come back to the US where I completed my certification to be a principal and promptly went off to be the principal of the K-12 school in Newtok, Alaska. Living in the Alaskan bush in a ~180 person village without running water that still functions primarily through subsistence living is an amazing and eye-opening experience as well.

You can find links to my published stories as well as various other things I'm involved in or do to the left. The picture to the right is a group of us at the Duralaman Palace. It's the backdrop to our south-facing buildings and classrooms, as w