I was born in Baker, Oregon, but I grew up in northeastern Ohio in the 70s, in Boardman, a suburb of Youngstown. At the University of Pittsburgh I fell in love with academia, college radio, french fries from the O, and the history and philosophy of science, among other things. In 1987 I left Pittsburgh for graduate school in philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.

By 1992 I had a Ph.D., a wife, two daughters (a son would come in 1995), and a job as an assistant philosophy professor at Virginia Tech. Seven years later I was divorced and raising my kids in central Wisconsin, where I taught at UW-Stevens Point. In 2003 the four of us moved to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where I remarried and took a job at nearby Bloomsburg University. In 2019 I resigned (from Bloomsburg and academia). I’m proud of the contributions I made to philosophy of science and academia; they’re listed in my CV.

Around 2012 I started finding myself on stage—playing guitar in a kindierock band, then doing stand-up, then co-founding a comedy open-mic, and eventually even scripting, booking, and hosting a variety show. In the Fall of 2019 I earned a Graduate Certificate in Audio Storytelling from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and moved with my wife to Inwood, at the northern tip of Manhattan. Since then I’ve freelanced, which amounts to: lots of tape syncs; co-producing a couple of NYC-based performance arts podcasts; pitching; recording and producing an audio book; and sometimes even making my own stuff.