Devilishly handsome by birth, cautiously optimistic by nature, Richard has inspired fear and awe in his college students since 2008. In 2011 he graduated from Boise State University (Go Broncos!) with a Master's degree in English: Rhetoric and Composition. Now he teaches as an adjunct instructor at CWIdaho and BSU, awaiting the day when he'll be accepted to a PhD program. He enjoys cold glasses of chocolate milk, face-to-face discussions with students who have problems (although email is his second-most preferred mode of communication), the smell of fresh mint plants on dry river bottoms, and he's skeptical that anyone will actually read this over-the-top, slightly exaggerated description.