Welcome to my web page at Palomar College.     This Fall semester I am teaching English 255, Ideas and Literature:  The Child in Literature.     Professor Gary Sosa of English as a Second Language and I will be the Coordinators of the Foundational College Skills at Palomar College.  Foundational College Skills is an outgrowth of the California Basic Skills Initiative which has been created to help students acquire foundational college skills including reading, writing, mathematics, and study skills.