Website I was born and raised in Winnipeg, and I was a rather spoiled and doted upon only child. There were also a few neat perks that came my way as my dad happened to be the manager of the Eatons toy department in the 1950s and early 60s. Overall I had a happy uneventful childhood in spite of being under the jackboot of a few reviled school teachers, which was all too typical for us boomer kids during what some refer to as “the lockstep 50s”.
I have long since been retired, but I still possess all of my physical and mental faculties. I developed a passion for electronics and radio communication in the early 1960s, and that led to a career as a professional engineer in the field of telecommunications after graduation from university. I have been married to my wife Julie for 42 years, and we have three adult children and four grandchildren. I am an electronics hobbyist, I hold an amateur radio license, and have been on the air for over three decades. I used to scuba dive in my younger years, and my wife and I made a number of trips south to a few exotic locations so that I could engage in that passion. I try to keep in shape by taking some extended cycling outings whenever the weather is favourable. We also did a fair bit of canoeing and camping when our kids were younger.
I began The Threefold Cord book series after reading a portion of an e-book account of one person’s trials and tribulations he suffered as a youth due to the toxic family environment brought about by his parents’ membership in the Worldwide Church of God. His account resonated strongly with me as my wife and I had been long-time members of that radical religious sect. Then out of the blue something occurred to me: perhaps I could write a fictional story based on somewhat similar circumstances as that particular author had described in his book.
I had previously written numerous articles and manuscripts, mostly about abuse in high-controlling religious sects, and how my wife and I had been duped, lied to, and financially exploited by the Worldwide Church of God. After we exited that church in 1998, I engaged in a process of extensive research into the inner workings of both our former church and other high-controlling religious organizations. What I wrote as a result of that research was never published, and only one of my writings was long enough to be classified as a full-length book. After that, I wrote comparatively little until the first book in what would become the Threefold Cord Series got under way.
All of my previous written endeavours were non-fictional accounts, and it was a bit of a stretch for me to think that I could successfully undertake writing a fiction story. But as I had the inspiration, plenty of background material and experiences from our many years in a cult-like church environment, I was confident that I could pull off my ambitious writing project. I had no idea where this writing project would take me, and I most certainly didn’t foresee the eventual creation of multiple sequels to the original story.
Oddly enough, at the time I had no intentions of making my writings public. That all changed after I received some positive feedback from a writer friend who graciously offered to read through my lengthy manuscripts. The positive feedback I received was the spark I needed to pursue publication of at least my first literary effort: The Threefold Cord. After much exhaustive editing, the first in the series was finally published, followed soon after by the five sequels. The final book in the series, Reunion, was published in July 2025.
