ABOUT THE ARTIST
My father painted signs with a steady hand that always amazed me. My brother is a cartoonist who captures dramatically the ironies of being alive. I have been drawing and building things since I was a child. And now in retirement I have the time to organize my life around whatever creative gifts I may have received.
My professional life has been a great gift to my creative development. I helped to create the field of social marketing, worked in public health, education reform, and environmental protection. I have met and worked with so many talented, committed, and inspiring people in my life that it surely contributes to what I see and try to capture in my work. My wife, Ginger, and I lived in Latin AMerica where both our children were born before moving back to her home in Virginia. Ginger has brought historic preservation into our lives through her work at Gunston Hall, George Mason's ancestoral home in Nortern Virginia. Her family's gift of the Lynnhaven House to Virginia and the nation inspired my respect for history. For years I was priviledged to travel through the villages and towns of Latin America, Africa and Asia in search of someway to contribute to the quality of life there. Certainly one of the most formative periods of my life was my work on HIV/AIDS and the extraordinary individuals, who in death and dying, taught me so much about living.
All these threads work together to influence the work you will see here, but I have no way to tell you how.
Look for two books I co-authored:
Radio: A Post Nine-Eleven Strategy for Reaching the World's Poor, University Press of America
Fostering Sustainable Behavior, New Society Publishers
