Swirling Winds of Grief and Joy is my current project. It is a memoir about how one man's dreams took shape; his pursuit of wonder; a loving tribute to his wife and companion of 27 years; and an exploration of grief as it swept across his life like a tornado. These experiences are framed in landscapes ranging from fantastic to the mundane—from Las Vegas to the ER, from Castle Neuschwanstein in Bavaria to the cornfields of Wisconsin. Hidden in the themes that run through the author's life—lost somewhere in the whirlwind of music, movies, and art, in the echoes of pain and laughter—is the meaning he must find to move forward. Read the first chapter.

For ten years, I wrote a humor column called "Fun with Stuff" that was published monthly in a Southern California Mensa bulletin and also through a syndication service. This collection contains 50 hand-picked selections from those ten years. Fun with Stuff also won the Mensa national award for Best Humor Column. As it says on the cover, "Never before has a book been so much like this one." It's available on Amazon.

The Path of Reason is the most important piece of writing I have done, and was the result of years of research, study, debate, and introspection. It is also the most controversial work I have released, because it describes how, over the first forty years of my life, I went from being a Christian to an agnostic to an atheist. I wrote it as a self-help book, intended as a guide for those who, like me, have struggled with organized religion and other, not so formal, belief systems. If those aren't a problem for you, then this book is probably not something you will appreciate. The Path of Reason was published by Algora Publishing, a small New York house, and is available on Amazon. Debates about any and all of the issues discussed in this book are readily available on a social media platform near you.