My name is Tom Kaplan-Maxfield (TKM to my students); I’ve been an author (see books on my website, tkaplanmaxfield.com), professor of English (at Tufts University and Boston College) and building contractor (KM Contracting) for the past thirty or so years.
If you’d like to know where I’m coming from and why I think the way I do, here are some various sources of thinking and inspiration I’ve learned from over the years—the tree as it were upon which I am a small branch. That is, these are the human and not-so-human inspirations that have made it possible for me to speak. In other words, to understand as fully as possible the ideas I’ll be articulating here, go read up on the following (in no particular order):