McGowan Writing and Research
About Dale
DALE MCGOWAN left a 15-year career as a college professor in 2006 to pursue writing full-time. Reviewers called his satirical novel Calling Bernadette's Bluff "an undoubted triumph of satire" and "a riot."
Creator of the secular parenting blog THE MEMING OF LIFE, Dale is also author of a humorous death-obsessed secular travel narrative titled Northing at Midlife, currently being presented in serialized form on this site. In addition to working on a practical companion volume to Parenting Beyond Belief and a secular parenting webinar series, he writes parenting columns for Humanist Network News and edits the Humanist Parenting website for the Institute for Humanist Studies in Albany, New York.
While living in Minneapolis, Dale served as US Communications Coordinator for Nonviolent Peaceforce, an organization that trains unarmed civilian peacekeepers for deployment to conflict zones around the world. He also served as a charter member of the Critical Thinking Club, Inc. and has taught critical thinking skills in the college classroom, the corporate boardroom, and public venues. He holds degrees in physical anthropology and music theory from UC Berkeley as well as a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Minnesota.
In 1984, Dale met Becca (now an elementary educator) when they were both members of the University of California Band in Berkeley, CA. They live near Atlanta, Georgia with their three ethical, caring kids (from left): Delaney, Connor, and Erin.
