Richard Sinay taught English and reading at the high school and college level in Orange County, California, for 35 years. He spends most of his time reading, writing, and playing golf. With the completion of “When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought…”, this is his ninth publication. His most recent publications were two books in his Confessions Series. Confessions of an English Teacher: How Textbooks Affect Literacy Improvement and What to Do to Solve It, and Confessions of an English Teacher: All About the Teaching of Writing at the High School Level. His first book was Who We Met on the Way to Stanford: A Father's Memoir, the story of how he and his son met famous golfers while pursuing a golf scholarship at Stanford. His second publication was How to Get a Golf Scholarship to Stanford: A Parent's Guide, intended for parents who want to see their golfer play for Stanford. His third publication, Observations of America and My Ancestral Past: An Epistolary Autobiography, is a daily account of a twenty-five-thousand-mile trip around the country. His subsequent work, Crazy Little Children Are Jangling the Keys of the Kingdom: The Estrangement Epidemic in America, examines the phenomenon. Next, his Confessions of an English Teacher: A Memoir of My Teaching Years is his first book about teaching English in California high schools and community colleges. He followed that with Confessions of an English Teacher: How High School and Community Colleges Can Improve Instruction. He currently resides in Palm Desert, California.
