While a past resident of Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Florida, New York, and Vermont, Rodney now resides in Indiana, where he keeps his heart proudly thumping by pecking at a laptop, riding his ten-speed up and down the Cardinal Greenway, taking long walks with whoever will oblige, or backpacking and wilderness camping.His list of past occupations reads like his list of past residences, though his life-long ambition was to be an artist − until he discovered a latent affinity for writing."In art," Rodney says, "I was constantly being asked to explain images constructed from a palette of emotions and abstract ideas, which couldn't effectively be described in words. The spectator either got it or they didn't, and when they didn't, they would usually assume that the artist was full of shit. In writing, the words are creating the images, images are telling a story, the story is evoking feelings - there's nothing to explain."Rodney's interests include: art, science, politics, music (collecting vinyl records), gardening, cooking, and travel.