Catholic; married. A writer by nature, if not yet by trade (I love “Leaf by Niggle” by JRR Tolkien.) I garden (I try and channel my inner Sam Gamgee). I blog on sobriety and spirituality at sobercatholic.com. I am a cat herder. I love Tolkien’s works (not just Middle Earth.) Other favorite writers include Tim Powers and Flannery O’Connor. I've sefl-pubbed two small Catholic devotionals for alcoholics and addicts and have a few more weighing down my Scrivener program. I've recently self-pubbed "The Catholicpunk Manifesto," a call to Catholic creatives to apply their faith to the art! "The world will be saved by beauty,"- Fyodor Dostoyevsky