You have come to this page for one of two reasons: either you are a student interested in knowing more about your professor or you are a stalker. Either way, welcome.
What do you need to know about me? Well, I'm not above making stuff up — I don’t let the truth get in the way of a good story — so consider anything you read on this page to be suspect at best.
I am the associate professor of journalism at Indiana University Southeast. There’s only one, and that’s me. I was hired to teach Visual Communication and to advise the student newspaper, The Horizon. I also teach Communications Law, Journalism Ethics, Introduction to Mass Communication, Principles of Creative Advertising and Writing, Reporting and Editing I. I have taught photojournalism and editing in the past. I have been teaching here since fall 1999.
I also maintain a few Web sites: The Shyness Research Institute, The Louisville Italian-American Association and First Baptist Church of Jeffersonville.
I have had many jobs, including magazine editor, graphic designer, typesetter, computer consultant, freelance writer and newspaper columnist. I have also waited tables, bagged groceries, input data, delivered newspapers, sold beer and hamburgers at an amusement park, worked in a grocery-store deli and worked in a small, independent book store. I currently write for TheBestWho.com, which is a lot of fun.
OK, that was for the students. This is for the stalkers:
I am married and have two children, Ben and Carly. My wife, April, and I have been married since 1997. We live in Jeffersonville, Ind. April works for Zion Publications, which produces Today’s Woman magazine, as well as Today’s Transitions and Today’s Family. She is the head graphic designer. We met when I was a doctoral student at the University of South Carolina, where April earned her journalism degree. I have a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas. And I do believe the Eyes of Texas are upon me.
I was born in Rochester, New York — Gates, New York, to be exact. Sports Illustrated once called Gates a “well-scrubbed suburb of Rochester.” That’s more or less correct. I remember lots of snow — lots and lots of snow. I went to Walt Disney Elementary School and Gates-Chili Junior High School — that’s not important, but I wanted to get Walt Disney in there somewhere. I moved to Laredo, Texas, when I was in eighth grade. Laredo may not be purgatory, but you can see it from there. I moved from there before my senior year of high school. I ended up graduating in Centerville, Ohio. Centerville is known for, well, nothing. Actually, it has more stone houses than any other city in Ohio, which I suppose is something. Then I went back to Texas for college. Add in my stay in South Carolina and my time in Southern Indiana, and you know where I’ve been. By the way, Jeffersonville is within rock-chucking distance of Louisville, Ky. — just so you know, stalkers.
My parents, Ron and Anne Marie, currently live in Las Vegas. Why? I have no idea. I have an older sister, Tere, who is an actuary in Dallas. She can tell you, statistically speaking, when you will die. She is married to Glenn, and they have two children, Aaron and Renee. I have two younger brothers, Ken and Brian. Ken does computer networking for a group of retirement homes in the Midwest. He lives in Indianapolis with his wife, Stacey, and their two children, Thomas and Shelby. Brian is an accountant in Houston. Since no one actually lives in Houston, Brian lives in Sugar Land, Texas, with his wife, Mandy.
I am also a deacon at First Baptist Church of Jeffersonville. I consider it a great honor and privledge to serve in this way.
That should do it for both groups. Now, go run and play with the normal children.
