A short autobiography for the curious

This is my fifth year at WPHS. I also teach English at College of Central Florida. My three children, Kryztov, Lydia, and Xander, are super-awesomely smart and creative. You might have met my wife when she was a teacher at Romeo Elementary School, but now she’s a high school English teacher, too. I used to have not-as-good-as-being-a-teacher jobs, like graphic designer and GameStop zombie.

Lacking any interesting hobbies, I occasionally pass the time by reading or writing. Time spent with my kids building with Legos is always fun, too. We also enjoy playing board games, Mario Kart, Minecraft, Magic: The Gathering, and Pokémon TCG. My favorite novelists are Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O’Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Charles Dickens. What else… I love pushing myself physically and mentally to see what I’m capable of and what perceived limitations I’m able to overcome.              

A short list of recommended reading

Enchiridion – Epictetus

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

Into the Wild – John Krakauer

Walden – Henry David Thoreau

Tao Te Ching – Laozi

Self-Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca – Seneca