John C. Sparks is a senior staff engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio and has taught mathematics at Sinclair Community College for over twenty years. In late 2003, Sparks received the Ohio Association of Two-Year Colleges’ 2002-2003 Adjunct Teacher of the Year award. He and his wife, Carolyn (photo), have celebrated thirty-five years of marriage and have two sons, Robert and Curtis, who are both married. Sparks is a lifelong resident of Xenia, Ohio. Sparks has written and published two volumes of poetry, Rhyme for All Seasons, and Mixed Images, and a three-hundred and thirty-page mathematics textbook, Calculus Without Limits. His current work, Gold, Hay and Stubble: One Journeyman’s Poetic Diary is the culmination of six years of poetry work and contains one-hundred and-five of his most favorite pieces.