Hometown: Aliquippa, Pennsylvania
Alma Mater: West Virginia University (BS); University of Pittsburg (MS); FIU (BA); University of San Francisco (MS)
Languages: English and a little bit of German and Italian
Hobbies: Working out and writing short stories and novels
Passion: I tell my students that if they want to distract the class, all they have to do is to mention baseball, cooking or travelling.
Fun Fact: When I weighed 145 pounds, I once bench-pressed 235 pounds.
