I've been teaching philosophy at Butte College since the mid-1980s, fulltime since 1998; I’ve also taught in the school's Honors Program and play an active role in coordinating TMI at Butte College.

Married, with two cats, my passions include my wife, reading, page layout programs, blogs, podcasts and wikis, philosophy and religious studies, classic fiction, and J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.

For some 30 years I was involved in local radio: 19 at KEWQ (renamed KKXX) in Paradise, 10 at 93.9KFM in Chico (where I was second banana to Gary Bennett on the Bennett and Barnett morning show), and about 1 at KPAY in Chico.

My BA in philosophy and MA in Interdisciplinary Studies both come from California State University, Chico where I was mentored in my chosen profession by the late Marvin Easterling and later by department chair Brooke Moore, who gave me my first teaching job.

In June of 2007 I was privileged to give a co-keynote address, along with Pat James of Mt. San Jacinto College, at the 2007 Online Teaching Conference held in Fremont, California.