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Looking back, it's clear that I have been a science nerd my entire life. A simple, almost toy-quality microscope my poor parents scraped and saved to buy me for Christmas when I was a child led to a career in science education that has spanned nearly 40 years.
During my science teaching career I have taught physical science, earth science and life science at all levels--elementary, high school and college. Concurrent with my teaching career has been my shadow career as a writer and author. At the classroom level I wrote all my own curricular materials--lectures, lab activities, homework assignments, review sheets, tests. All my materials were content-driven and inquiry-oriented. In my classroom the overpriced, colored picture books that pass for textbooks never came off the shelf. At the commercial level I have written and had published numberous curriculum supplement books ranging from microbiology to zoology to the development of critical thinking skills in students. Since retirement, I have continued my freelance science writing endeavors and most recently finished an introductory level college science textbook and lab manual for Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
I live in a very small community in the midwest where I enjoy a huge yard and garden. Most evenings during favorable weather you can find me out beside my large pond enjoying the fish, frogs, and water lilies and contemplating my next writing challenge.