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After high school, I attended S.U.N.Y. at Plattsburg College (3 yrs.) and transferred to and graduated from S.U.N.Y. at Geneseo College with a B.A. degree in Psychology and a minor in Sociology in 1974. I then moved to and lived and worked in the greater Boston, MA area from 1974-1979 (having worked some of that time at the unique and world-renown, double subterranean nightclub, The Paul's Mall and The Jazz Workshop, having the privilege of seeing, listen to, and interface with many of the most world famous music artists of all times, i.e Miles Davis, Bob Marley, etc.), at the end of which I began a process of a critical, personal spiritual awakening and life transformation (becoming a believer and follower of the Messiah of Israel [Yeshua] and of the Old and New Testament scriptures).
I then returned to Sherrill, NY, where I lived, with the widowed Mrs. Kurt, a retired elementary school teacher, and worked from 1979-1986, and during which time I met and married (1981) the mother of my 3 children. The next move was to Virginia Beach, VA in 1986 where I attended graduate school at Regent University, from which I graduated with a M.A. degree in Professional Counseling, subsequently becoming a Licensed Professional Counselor in 1993. In 2003, I obtained additional professional training, becoming a certified Leadership Coach and Leadership Coach Trainer with Lifeforming Leadership Coaching, an international coaching organization headquartered in Virginia Beach, VA. [Unfortunately, after 29 years of marriage, I then suffered the grief of being divorced by the mother of my children in 2011.]
In 2014, I married Lisa, a very intelligent and bright-minded South African younger woman who, besides being a like-minded believer, was an accomplished practitioner and trainer for Wella Balsam and Proctor and Gamble, as well as having enjoyed being a world traveler. We honeymooned in gorgeous and exciting Capetown, South Africa. Together we enjoy many things in common, including many intellectual interests, aesthetic beauty, and the natural creation.
I am most satisfied with my life of faith, in general, and my three adult children and their lives of faith, each of whom are of excellent character and charasmatic personality, having esteemed spouses, marriages, children and families, as well as vocational accomplishments. I am, otherwise, also, most satisfied with my own life's work of helping and professionally counseling and coaching thousands of extremely diverse and unique people with all of their myriads of serious and important experiences and struggles in the vast challenges of this grand yet tumultuous human experience in this world, over the span of the past 45 years. I very well may just continue to do what I do, at least part-time, until I'm no longer able to do so, for whatever reason.
I've long-since been done with active athletic participation, though I fondly remember everyone and those experiences from our shared times past at V.V.S., but I do still enjoy spectating most any kind of athletic competition, as well as following a few of the main sports and teams in particular. I do, however, especially actively enjoy riding my recumbent bicycle out on the country roads here, because of the exercise, sunshine, fresh air, and scenery, as well as the time for contemplation and prayer, trying to maintain my goal of at least 4 rides per week and a total of at least 75 miles per week (during the best riding seasons of the year, anyways).
