Channeling my inner Eric Hoffer philosopher with the critical thinking of Christopher Hitchens, Carl Sagan's love of science, and aspiring to Ernest Hemingway-level of writing. I also love political science, religion and theology. Reading and writing is my passion; and like John Green, E.L. Doctorow, and Laura Hillenbrand, I'm a Kenyon College graduate. The written word is our pedigree, as E.L. Doctorow said: "We did textual criticism at Kenyon the way they played football at Ohio State."