QueerPapa

–Bio (updated 09/22/16)

I am a sixty-four year old male with three adopted adult sons and a wife who has endured my mania and idiosyncratic behaviors for the last forty-five-years. I am now retired and working on my 3rd, 4th, and 5th manuscripts as well as a revolving handful of shorter compositions. Some of my short stories are on the two websites below.

In the past I have been a Psychotherapist at a youth and teen Diagnostic Unit, Professional Portrait Photographer,furniture builder and upholsterer,intensive care foster parent and long-time college student (completed AAS, BS, MS, and MA). I am a long-time member of the LGBTQ Community and write mainstream and Adult Queer Romantic Fiction as well as other genres.

I write Essays on LGBTQ issues as well as Politics, Philosophy, Religion, Nature, Human Relations, and occasionally Clinical Psychiatric Papers. This year I began writing memoirs related to my Life Experiences, Romantic and Sexual encounters, Philosophical Research, my physical and emotional abuse and resultant psychiatric issues, including Bi-Polar Disorder and PTSD. After a Lifetime of searching for meaning and purpose I believe I became Self-Actualized in December of 2015 following a twelve hour Epiphany or Conversion (a Paradigm shift including a continuing process of Consciousness raising, at times overwhelming Self-Awareness, Individuation, Prolific Creative Endeavor, and the realization and activation of One's Unlimited Potentiality) that dramatically changed my perception of Reality.