My influences are diverse. They include but are not limited to: Oscar Wilde, Morrissey, E.A.Poe, J.K.Rowling, P.J.O'Rourke, Robert R. MacGammon, John Saul, Mark Twain, David Eddings, Dave Barry, C.S. Lewis, Bishop Fulton Sheen, St. Augustine, St. Maximilian Kolbe, My Dad - the Army, My dad - the Police, Leonard Cohen, Carol Culver-Rzadkiewicz, Alan Tatum, William Peter Blatty, Judy Budnizt, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Count Chocula, My son, My beautiful wife, my siblings - in-lawed or otherwise...My parents - all are six of you.