About DGC

In my humble opinion…

“Story is the soul of experience.”

…and therefore informs everything I do as a writer of fiction, articles and songs.

I’ve also taught as a guest artist in the upstate New York public schools (Albany and Rochester) and I have written for the theater.  My plays have been produced at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, as well as the Chester Theatre Company in the Berkshires.  I have received writing awards from the Connecticut, Massachusetts and Michigan arts councils.  My journalism has been published in daily newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Daily News, and various print and online publications

The Lake That Stole Children and its companion Start a Conversation with Story provide a unique method  for engaging and expanding life, love, career and spirituality.  Please join the conversation.

“A beautifully written fable that’s also a beautifully designed book.”
– Aram Saroyan, international poet, novelist, memoirist and playwright

“I loved your book and am reading it to my 8th grade creative writing class to get them thinking about the genre.”
— Carol Begian-McGuire, teacher, Alcona Michigan Public Schools

An excerpt from The Lake That Stole Children:

As the fisherman began to ache with sorrow, the sky dared to lower its stars, nightingales sang, and fireflies teased the dark with flights of fancy.

And then he heard crying. At first one voice, then several, then a chorus of voices keening in the distance; the cries seemed to come from Flat Horn Lake.

The fisherman rose. He was sure he heard his own boy’s voice mingling with the others. He called, and his son’s voice grew louder. He begged, “Where are you?