BIOGRAPHY

 My grandfather grew up with his 1st cousin President Calvin Coolidge in Plymouth Notch Vermont in the late 1800s. After attending Allegheny College in Pennsylvania where I majored in Theater I received a Master’s Degree in Educational Media from Boston University.  As Director of Media Production for the General Electric Company I produced educational video programs that were sold internationally.  After several years, I left to attend the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge Massachusetts and was ordained an Episcopal Priest.  After this I received additional training and profession certifications in Spiritual Direction and Hospital Chaplaincy.  In the past forty years, as a priest, chaplain, and counselor, I worked in acute and chronic care hospitals, prisons, nursing homes, psychiatric facilities, Spiritual Direction centers, and churches across New England. I am also a poverty attorney certified to practice law in Connecticut and New York and for many years practiced law as a priest attorney in one of the poorest cities in the country.