Bill's occupations in previous lives include bitter and disillusioned graphic designer/art director for the Chicago Sun-Times, bitter and disillusioned
Hollywood screenwriter, and a bitter and disillusioned gag writer for comic strips. When not writing gags, photographing Chicago or being bitter and disillusioned, Bill finds his charity work with the elderly quite rewarding. Once a week he takes his dear, feeble, white-haired mother, Josephine, to Denny's® for a "Moons Over My Hammy"®. Once every six weeks, he even buys." Bill lives by the mottos, "If you can't beat 'em, mock 'em!" and "That what does not kill me makes me bitter and disillusioned."