Tim was voted as the least likely person to conform to peer presure.

Tim has published four novels and one book of short stories in the science fiction-fantasy genre. He is currently working on three novels. One about historical fiction on the struggles of life on a farm in the upper midwest; a novel about the corruption by advertising agencies and the business world in creating tobacco sales; and a horror novel about rats.

Tim was one of the few people who started grade school in a one room country school house. There were eight grades and one teacher that lived in the back of the school. It had no running water, and the parents of the children had to take turns bringing water every day for the children to drink and for the teach to use. There was no plumbing and the only bathroom was an outhouse out back. The teacher stayed at the school during the week and drove back to town on the weekends-if weather and roads permitted. He grew up in western North Dakota where each township consisted of thirty-six square miles and had forty to fifty farms and a one room school house. There were about thirty kids in the school at that time. Today, that same township had less than ten farms and no school children. As a kid he could walk to the neighbors to play. There was no problem with a six-year-old walking a mile to play with other kids in those days. The school was located a quarter mile from their farm, so they had to walk to school every day except if it was below zero.

When he was five years old, Dwight Eisenhower was President and he had a neighbor by the name of Riesenhower who was the township supervisor. When he heard the news talk about President Eisenhower he thought they were referring to the township supervisor and thought that he was the President. When they mentioned the New England states, the author thought they were talking about his home town of New England. Eisenhower was still President when Tim started the first grade but by then he knew the differences. They didn’t have kindergarten in those days.

When Tim was in the fourth grade, his parents took their children out of the local school and drove them to the public school located twelve miles away. They believed that the education their children were getting in the one room school house was substandard. In the one room school house, there were five in his grade, but all the grades shared one room and one teacher. His class was one of the largest and they were products of the baby boom after World War II. In town each class had their own room and teacher. There was very little turnover in students, and about ninety percent of the students who started in the first grade graduated together from high school, although he was not one of them due to health problems. He still remembered every teacher for the first eight grades. After getting married he brought his wife to meet his first grade teacher.

Tim had health problems and in his sophomore year in high school, his parents decided that school was too hard on him and took him out. A year later, without taking any other classes, Tim passed the GED. Being out of school for several years helped him recover, and after three years, he was drafted into the US Army for two years. He could have easily gotten out because of his health, but he was determined not to let his health interfere with his life. It was difficult at best with his health but they made him a medic and that helped. Right after graduating from my medical training at Fort Sam Houston, TX in March of ’73 he received orders to go to Viet Nam. Before Tim had to leave, President Nixon ended the war and cancelled all orders of going to Viet Nam. They can say what they want about Nixon, but he would always have a warm spot in his heart for Nixon.

After two years in the Army, he went to college on the GI Bill and graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in accounting. He worked as a CPA in Chicago, Salt Lake City, and Los Angeles. His experience as a CPA included taxation, auditing, and finances. He managed his own accounting firm with six employees for most of the time and had financial clients from France, England, Germany, Belgium, Australia, Japan and others. Some of Tim’s days would began at the start of business in Germany and last until the end of business in Japan. There are very few poeple who have had the same experience of working in the largest financial markets in the world, worked as a combat medic, lived in some of the largest cities in the world, and on a farm isolated from most of the world. He now raises goats on a farm when he isn't writting. His unique experience adds flavor to his writings.

Tim started writing in his late fifties after leaving the accounting profession. He finally realized at that age, what he was meant to do in life. Or as he liked to too say, “I finally found out what I wanted to do when I grew up.”

In the words of Kirkus Review, "A touching, effective collection that will keep its smiling readers guessing."

Finding a topic or idea to write had never been a problem. In his own words, “All my life I have had thoughts or visions of stories and now I know those were stories waiting to be told and that I’m not crazy after all-maybe a little bit, but that only makes it more interesting.”

Tim's primary reason for writing is simply for the love of writing.