I love to write stories, especially for kids. Growing up my father would tell me his made-up stories at bedtime. I would fall asleep each night with their magic bouncing around my brain. When I became a father I started the same tradition with my children. There’s nothing I love more than to hear or read a story that transports me to another place or time.
This blog contains some of my work.
For information about what I do to *feed* those kids I love sharing stories with, you can read below.
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I’m co-founder of AskForIt.com, a social networking site that helps people get what they want, founded on Rene Girard’s insights about mimetic desire. (www.askforit.com)
I also currently work as the CEO of Scrapbook.com, the world’s largest and most-visited online website and store for paper-crafting enthusiasts. I have worked in this capacity for seven years. (www.scrapbook.com)
I worked as an Analyst for the investment bank Goldman Sachs designing, among other things, new-hire training and continuing education programs and I ran the Analyst Training Program for the the Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities Division.
I managed touring musical acts and have run an independent record label. Beginning with my junior year in college, I spent a decade recording, performing, and touring with a professional, award-winning a cappella group. (www.259.com).
I recently recorded two albums with my indie-rock band, Roger Over & Out. (www.rogeroverandout.com)
I spent two years teaching and doing missionary work in Argentina, living and working primarily amongst the poor, and spent the majority of my time training and leading groups of up to 200 volunteers.
I have coached youth basketball teams and have served as a Boy Scout adult leader.
I majored in Philosophy at Brigham Young University and I pursued post-graduate work at New York University in the music business program.
My writing has been published in several magazines. I have completed a full-length fiction story for middle-grade readers that I hope to have published someday.
I am (happily!) married with five children and the majority of my free time is spent serving at my church, volunteering in my community, and writing.
Every day I try and be a better and kinder person, but it’s tough to do!