Rules of the Universe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781532945595)

Ken's lifelong fascination with boundaries of social behavior has resulted in a rare perspective. He attributes many of his writing skills to a strong high school enriched English program and creative writing at the University of Michigan, where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Science. Ken received his Master's and Doctoral degrees at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he studied whole organism biology, animal behavior and ornithology. His doctoral thesis was on species recognition of song by the indigo bunting, under the guidance of William Lay Thompson. After a few years teaching at The University of Michigan, Dearborn and summers at Wayne County Community College, Ken spent two years in Post-Doctoral research at McGill University in Montreal, under Robert E. Lemon. Aferward he did some private consulting and taught at Bellevue Community College in Bellevue, WA. For the last 35 years, Ken has been a real estate broker and managing broker in Bellevue and Seattle, WA. Ken has worked in public health, scrub nursing, curation, consulting, teaching, sales and management. His hobbies include acting, writing, lay leadership, venue leadership, philosophy, exploration of the natural world and caring for his pets and backyard pond. He is a member of The PoetsTable writing group. As of this writing, Ken and Cathy have been married 46 years, and have two children and two grandchildren.