Life beyond Radford

I am an Australian writer and philosopher of Czech, Ukrainian, English, and Scottish ancestry—the grandson of Holocaust survivors, and with creativity-laden lineage on both sides of my family. I am also a relative of Scottish writer, critic, and biographer Sir John Gibson Lockhart—the author of Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott (who was also Lockhart’s father-in-law). Long before I became aware of this literary connection, I felt a calling to become a poet, as well as to write a semi-autobiographical philosophy book—a vision sparked in part by studying French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne’s Les Essais at university. Since then, I have been deeply interested in the power of written and spoken word to shape individual lives and societies, anchored in the belief that everyone has a story to tell. As a writer, If You Go There, It Will Come: Poems of Faith in Place (a 73-poem anthology currently being distributed to potential publishers) is my first formal expression of that calling. As a philosopher, my novella, How Humanism Supports the Existence of God— linked to my Split Narrative Convergence Theory ('SNCT'), is my second formal expression of that calling.