‘’Dear reader, let me introduce myself.

I am a retired Mental Health Professional, and my career ranges from public health to private practice to a business career as the founder of Maschhoff, Barr & Associates, a Northwest Employee Assistance program that provided Mental Health and Substance Abuse Diagnostic services to tens of thousands of families throughout the United States.  I am a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University with a Master’s Degree in Psychology.  I grew up in a small town in southern Illinois called Nashville.  I spent four years as a Computer Technician in the Air Force and have lived in Tacoma, Washington, the Hill Country of Texas and most recently, in Sequim, Washington, a small community on the Olympic Peninsula.

I enjoy the outdoors; I fly fish, surf fish, enjoy the beach, and hike in the Northwest mountains and in the red rocks of Utah and Arizona.  I hunt and cultivate mushrooms and enjoy woodworking. Five or six months a year is spent on the beach and writing in Englewood, Florida, and this is where the Cutter Series began.