He came to writing from thirty years as a Clinical Psychologist; much of that work with trauma survivors. His service during the Vietnam War taught him the practice and realities of war. Though he was not in combat, he attended Army Basic Combat Training as an enlisted man and Officer Candidate School. On active duty as a Navy Psychologist at Bethesda Naval Hospital, he treated Marines with PTSD. After the war he worked building an elementary school with other Vietnam era veterans outside of Hue and Dong Ha, Vietnam with the Veterans Vietnam Restoration Project.

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Oprah and Tyra featured his nonfiction book The Forgiving Place: Choosing Peace After Violent Trauma about the home invasion murder of his wife and his forgiveness of the murderers. Marianne Williamson, author of Return to Love and Presidential Candidate, wrote the foreword.

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His other novel The Mind Travelers was published by Selfhelpbooks.com. He wrote the column Emotional Healing for the The Holy Encounter,  A Course in Miracles-oriented monthly magazine focused on inner peace. He just completed a memoir Venus Boy: A Queer Psychologist’s Life.

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He gave up his psychologist profession working with military and civilian trauma survivors to write about forgiveness and violent loss and to make films portraying what war and violence does to humans.  He traveled to Vietnam to help rebuild a school in the area devastated by the war and then wrote the screenplay for Love in Country showing the devastation war has on a soldier’s and civilian’s psyches.  

 

He “came out” late in life as bisexual man and began to promote LGBT rights.  His original screenplay for Love in Country was honored by other screenwriter’s as the best on Francis Ford Coppola’s website, Zoetrope.  His mentor, three-time Emmy award winner Mario Ortiz, helped in early development to raise funds and plan the production of Love in Country.

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Currently he lives with his husband and three dogs in California and Thailand. He has three children and nine grandchildren.

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