Welcome to my website. I hope you’ve found the resources on the previous pages helpful. I will share a little about myself on this page and the photo pages that follow. You can listen to my teaching philosophy and life philosophy, or browse various quotes that I’ve collected over the years (see below). I began teaching at Washburn University in 2005 after serving as a faculty member at Texas A&M University, the University of Colorado, and the University of South Florida. I started out in resort hotel/country club management in Tucson in the early 1980s. I have started up businesses in Arizona and Texas (fitness centers and a country club), Florida (financial consulting firm) and Colorado (online mortgage company). I am blessed with a great family. I have one son living in Denver, another in Durango, and a daughter who lives in Topeka and goes to Washburn. My wife, Nancy, is a massage therapist. When I’m not immersed in the world of finance I can be found road-tripping around the western United States with my backpack and hiking boots, in search of the perfect trail.
Favorite Quotations
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.
-- Irving Mills and Duke Ellington
He attracted some attention, when he found the fourth dimension -- but he ain’t got rhythm, there’s no one with him, the loneliest man in town.
-- Irving Berlin
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
-- Reginald Blyth
The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
-- Marcel Proust
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
-- Anais Nin
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
-- Bertrand Russell
No one tells you to question, to find out for yourself . . . because if you were to rebel, you would become a danger to all that is false.
-- Krishnamurti
True education is learning how to think, not what to think.
-- Krishnamurti
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold, and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake
Inertia is more obscene than anything.
-- Henry Miller
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.
-- Henry Miller
What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?
-- Wendell Berry
The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.
-- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
When the situation is hopeless, there is nothing to worry about.
-- Edward Abbey
Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
-- Edward Abbey
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
-- Saul Bellow
The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality.
-- Hannah Arendt
I know thy works; thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
-- The Book of Revelation, 3:15-16