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Hi, I'm Andrew.
I'm a fan of Tolkien, Lucas, Roddenberry, and Rowling.
I have been a landscaper, window washer, assembly-line factory worker, customer service associate, data entry worker, teacher, math and science department head, private tutor, musician, print project consultant, social media manager, video producer, non-profit kids festival chair, marketing campaign coordinator, techie guy, and curriculum writer.
In university, I dropped an elective course after buying the textbooks. I kept the books. One was Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Years later, I read it and finally felt like I could see why stories were so important to people.
Campbell and curiosity led me to Jordan Peterson, Northrop Frye and Marshall McLuhan. A friend then introduced me to Bernard Lonergan. I realized something remarkable and unique had shaped Canadian thought. Psychology, Literature, Media Literacy and Religious studies - I fell in love with my home all over again, and with the spirit of inquiry.
My father was a minister and a tinkerer. My mother was a teacher and a reader. I really had no chance - there simply was no getting away from words and ideas. But new information and distractions kept getting in the way. I had to come to terms with the problem of superstition, and the power of story.
While writing The Divine Daughter, I learned about the Andrewsarchus. The Andrewsarchus was a sturdy wolf-like cow with a long muzzle that lived about 50 million years ago. A history of adaptation and development came before its appearance, brief flourish, and withdraw off stage. A cast of the skull of an Andrewsarchus is on display at the American Museum of Natural History. I would consider myself very lucky to earn such a legacy.
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