About the Author
Two Truths and a Lie

Victor earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and a MEd from Harvard. On the first meeting of the Technology in Education class, the doc taught the class to play two truths and a lie. Victor wrote:

I am a blacksmith and I wrote a fictionalized memoir.

I am a certified STEM teacher and I wrote a novel.

I have a black belt and an EMMY award.

My work has been shown on four continents.

No one guessed the lie.

In the beginning, before his degrees, Victor was a Blacksmith. During summer afternoons in Rockport, Massachusetts, that were too hot for smithing, he made masks of plaster, papier mache and painted wood. Why masks? He has prosopagnosia – he can’t recognize faces.

Masks demand stories which led Victor to story-telling and writing. We understand the world through narratives. Some are empirical. Many are mythical. All are true, all are false.

As a seeker, Victor has struggled constantly with his relation-ship to God. Vic and God tried counseling but, in the end, he found Her too controlling. They broke up for a while, he wandered.

Victor’s ramblings led him to enter a sacred desert where he saw, carved in the rock, a woman giving birth to the world. He fell in love. He studied the myths of creation. He modeled them in wax, in fiber, in story. Some interpretations were rich and deep and resonant.

Victor is a child of the universe, a supplicant, a believer. In the arctic wilderness, he held a young white bear in his arms, and it changed his relationship to God. He began to pray for the world and continued to write in supplication.

December 6, 2025