me if I’ve ever used my training, and I say yes, I use it every day. It all starts with the five tenets of taekwondo: courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self-control and indomitable spirit.​

     Thanks to my wife’s long career as a travel agent and businesswoman, I’ve been able to travel all over the world, with more adventures to come. When I’m home and not on the radio or at the gym or pool, that’s when I create new adventures for my readers, usually with the dog or cat on my lap.

About The Author

​     I was born in Germany and grew up in southern Wisconsin. Today I live up in the northwestern corner of the state, in a log home on a lake with my wife Sue, a Morkie and a Siamese. After a career in radio broadcasting, I went to work for the US Government and resumed the writing career I’d started in college. A few months after retiring from Federal service in 2019, I went back to work in radio, and I’m still on the air part-time on WJMC/Rice Lake. I feel a little bit like Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”

     I began martial arts training in 2001 and earned black belts in the Korean art of taekwondo and also ryukudo kobujutsu, the study of Okinawan weaponry. Sue also has chodan rank in that art. People often ask 

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