T. G. Hess retired from a career in architecture to pursue his passion for writing. He has completed two currently unpublished novels that draw from classic stories as a starting point to explore difficult family relationships and how our childhoods shape us. He lives outside Boston in a turn-of-the-20th-century home where he and his wife raised two children, making every effort to do a better job at it than the characters in his novels. Results so far are encouraging.