I think my "bio" is best explained in a note about where "Treading Water" came from.

Back in the East Brunswick, New Jersey neighborhood where I spent many of my adolescent years, almost everyone had a swimming pool in the backyard. Being able to swim was an expected skill and there was little tolerance for those who could not keep their heads above water. Two things I learned quickly, how to tread water, and how to do the ”dead man’s float.” These were the “keep yourself from drowning” basics. As I’ve gotten older I’ve learned that there are many ways to drown and not all involve water. And while the “dead man’s float” remains back in the swimming pool, I’ve taken my treading water skills with me out of the pool and into life. Those of you who are treading water in your own corner of the world understand why we refer to “houses under water” and “drowning in debt.” We sometimes are forced to keep ourselves above the “waves” but below the “bullets”!

Which isn’t to say that actual liquefied hydrogen and oxygen don’t do their part to complicate things. Living in New Jersey means rain is almost always on the radar, and some of that rain comes in the form of hurricanes, rising rivers, backed up sewers and frozen pipes. Many of the essays and blog entries in my book were written while it was raining, all of them were written while I was treading water. And I am still treading water today.