I’m a Canadian living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I connected with a friend who has ALS.  After I returned from a six-month program at the Nyingma Institute, we launched a non-profit, Friends in Time, to help people with MS and ALS.

My memoir, The Flying Caterpillar (ABQ Press, 2012), gives an account of my experiences with Friends in Time and explores the influences that have inspired me.

            In Asleep at the Wheel of Time (ABQ Press), a SF novel about Whales, Aliens and humans, I express my concern about the state of planet Earth in light of our accumulating indifference to the plight of our home world.

My new novel, Falling on the Bright Side, draws directly on my experience working with the disabled.  Falling tells the story of people who have been shelved in nursing home warehouses who have lost their value to society, and explores how the human dimension continues to shine in these human beings.

            In my own life I have discovered that people in the process of losing their identities, occupations, and friends can illuminate the human predicaments we share.