About the author...

I came to this website provision through a long and varied background. Graduating University of Delaware after five years and as many majors, I worked for a year as an accountant. Not feeling the least bit suited to this career, I left to work in my Dad's clothing manufacturing factory. After a year of comtemplating what I was "built" to do, I returned to undergraduate school at Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania, to pursue a career in Pediatric medicine — through application to medical school. Although not successful at this endeavor (next time I wouldn't do the applications on deadline), I was however successful in gaining acceptance for neuro-physiology PhD study at a well known Bostonian "institution".

Although accepted for admission, I never went (which is an even longer story – and very likely one of those grand life mistakes.) Nevertheless, my mind and passion for research has never abated, and now finds expression in this format. My next several years after this were spent in running a business in Philadelphia that assisted travelers in processing passports and documents at the various foreign embassies in New York and Washington, DC. It never made a living – but was fun. And through it I honed my abilities in administration, finance, strategic planning, advertising, marketing, training, programming & volunteer work (Which some of our employees unwittingly found our job to be at times).

Having done full time class teaching in Physics and Math, I now only privately tutor high school kids in math & science (at the Southern New Jersey seashore), greatly preferring the effectiveness of this one-on-one environment.

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Information about the organization name, Cassia:

The organization name, Cassia, has this origin: Cassia is a plant of Biblical reference (Exodus 30:24, Psalm 45:8, and Ezekiel 27:19) — one of the ingredients of anointing oil. It is historically known to be a plant who's fragrance is released through it's crushing. As a type, it symbolizes any life that releases a sweet fragrance through it's crushings — otherwise spoken of as life's adversities.

As one example, in other words, if my adversity and experience of Lyme serves to cause a releasing of information that helps any number of others, then the net effect of this "crushing" has been the release of a sweet fragrance of benefit for the lives of others.

In a broader and Biblical sense, Cassia, in it's use, represents the Messiah (or Christ), my Lord; whose life was clearly spoken of long beforehand to be crushed entirely for the sake of mankind.