DAVID SAHL worked in Boston as a Civil and Highway engineer before returning to school to get his degree in Education. He taught school for 33 years before working as a bartender, a short order cook, an answer man in a large box home improvement store, a draftsman, a floor associate in an outdoor apparel store, a laborer, and a mason’s assistant. He is married with two children and has studied at various writers’ conferences for years and writes daily.