•     born and grew up in Yonkers, New York
     

  •    undergraduate at Syracuse University
     

  •    doctoral student in philosophy at the University of
       Chicago.
     

  •    employed for twelve years as continuing education
       administrator at the University of Chicago

    •   served for two years as Director of the Basic
        Program of Liberal Education  for Adults

  •    worked for twelve years as the Director of Education
       of the Chicago Association of Realtors

    •    served as Midwest Vice President of the national Real Estate Educators
        Association
       

    •   served as President of the Illinois Association of Real Estate Educators.
       

  •    taught philosophy at Indiana University Northwest.
     

  •    taught  philosophy and literature at University of Saint Francis
     

  •    teaches classics at the University of Chicago Graham School of General Studies

    •  Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults
       

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  •    teaches philosophy at Columbia College Chicago
     

  •    leads seminars on Proust at Chicago's Newberry Library.
     

  •    recent public lectures on Proust's In Search of Lost Time and on
      Melville’s Moby Dick.

    •   subjects of previous lectures and presentations include writings of
       Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Jean-Paul Sartre, Homer and Ovid.
       

  •    lives with dachshund, Reggie, in the Hyde Park area of Chicago.