I started driving as a student job and loved it. I continued to drive after graduating as a full time bus driver (with great pay and benefits). I developed a strong sense of safety and customer service. Also, there was plenty of time to read translations of classical literature on breaks.

Coaching careers are volatile and we moved to Chicago in August of 2013. I was eager for more ancient language and applied to a Post-Bac at Loyola two weeks before the start of classes. Now in a classroom for both Latin and Greek, I still wanted more and zipped to the opposite end of the city several days a week to the University of Chicago as a graduate student at-large.

I entered Iowa to study for a PhD with general interests in ancient religion and history. Now I am writing my dissertation on a stylometric analysis of Josephus. Along that path, I have acquired a teaching knowledge of Biblical Hebrew and Targumic Aramaic as well as a number of digital and technical skills.