Richard Thatcher is a sociologist and journalist retired from active employment or contractual work as a human service planning consultant and free-lance journalist. He now spends his golden years working on self-initiated research into the causes, outcomes and dynamics of social problems, as well as identifying the most compelling, evidencebased and innovative policies, programs and individually focused therapeutic remedies to overcome them. In occasionally broken periods of regularity, he also expends his elderly energies on his other passion: the production of visual art motivated by a variety of purposes. Within the context in each of those motivating purposes that guide his artistic endeavours, he explores a diversity of themes with the assistance of many different methods and styles. Thatcher's academic background includes a B.A. (Honours) and an M.A. in sociology from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Alberta. He is the author of many dozens of research and consulting reports and five published books other than this one, including Fighting Firewater Fictions (2004); Vision Seekers (2001); Deadly Duo (2001); Thinkin' Drinkin' (2011); and The Circle Fellowship (2015), the latter one co-authored with Dr, Fred Knowles Jr., Chair of the Native Studies Program at Valdosta State University, Valdosta, Georgia, USA.