Coach Bill / Dad, Entrepreneur Special Educator, American Political Scientist, Writer, Musician.

It was 1996 when Dad, in his mid-60’s, began running the Montserrat Springs Hotel and Spa. The hotel-resort sat on a hill jutting against the black sandy beaches of the small island of Montserrat. An English-colony that is sister to a string of islands that begins with Cuba and makes its way across La Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the British and U.S. Virgin Islands and a host of smaller ones, like St.Kitts, Nevis and Antigua in the eastern-most part of the Carribean sea. Dad would spend weeks at a time in Montserrat away from home in Puerto Rico during my adolescence doing what he did best professionally…turning around defunct and dilapidated hotel/ resort properties and making them profitable again. He always moved quickly to build relationships with everyone from the Chef to the maids, the preachers in town and just about everyone in the community. He did this well by literally running across the capital of Plymouth every morning shirtless. He was always the ‘resident gringo’...