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My life took a sharp turn to the different on April Fools’ Day 1991 when I accepted a position to teach computers and math at United Arab Emirates University located in the desert oasis city of Al Ain. On the Men’s Campus my first year, I taught on the Women’s Campus for the next seven, one of the first unmarried Western men permitted to do so.
I returned to the UAE in 2001 after the Higher Colleges of Technology hired me to develop a CAD/Interior Design program at Sharjah Women’s College. It was there where I met Sue, a native of Canada and my wife-to-be. With the program in place, I transferred to Dubai Women’s College to again teach computers and math while developing and writing subject-integrated student projects that became a model for the 12-campus system.
In 2007, Sue and I retired, moving to our riverfront property off a dead-end dirt (we aspired to gravel) road in the mountains near Vilcabamba, Ecuador, where we currently reside. In 2017, we purchased a property on the Haida Gwaii archipelago in British Columbia, Canada, where we will one day make our last international move.
Two years after moving to Ecuador, I began a five-year association with a company catering to expats and wannabes. Writing articles on life overseas, I was also the company’s top-rated conference presenter. At Sue’s suggestion, I began writing for myself, resulting in a book series featuring my make-you-laugh, make-you-cry, make-you-think stories.
A native of Wisconsin, I graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, earning a B.S. in Architecture, a B.A. in Economics, and a Master of Architecture degree. To help finance my education, for ten seasons, I captained the Chief Waupaca, an authentic sternwheel paddleboat based at Clear Water Harbor on Waupaca’s Chain O’Lakes.
