I'm a native Virginian, a reluctantly retired English teacher, an author, an editor, an abstract expressionist painter, and a political junkie. I have degrees from Villanova University and Old Dominion University. I have a two-volume political book on the market: 'Patsy of the Ages: Lee Harvey Oswald and His Nation Half a Century Later.'
I began painting a few months after 9/11. Whether there is some psychological linkage here is an open question. My initial experiments were as basic as one can get--with tempera paints on cardboard and even copier...more