I am a former Mentor at SUNY-Empire State College, a current member of the Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute faculty, and an active freelancer. My pub list includes The New York Times (Magazine/Regional sections), Washington Post, LA Times (oped/ West), The Christian Science Monitor (Home Forum/OpEd), AARP , Ladies Home Journal and a biblically long list of parenting magazines (I have seven kids). My books include Zen and the Art of Fatherhood (Dutton), The ABCs of Real Family Values (Plume), The Complete Guide for the Anxious Groom (Career Press), Fear and Loathing of Boca Raton: A Hippie's Guide to the Second Sixties (Quill Driver Books), and quite recently a collection of poems, A Month on a Barrier Island (Millrock Writers).