Thom Prentice is an "Intellecty'all, Symbologist and Deconstructioneer" and a dangerous thinker living in San Marcos, TX.  He is also a "scrivener, a scribbler and a cipherer" when chemo-brain doesn't interfere.  His career began in Journalism.

Prentice has been diagnosed with ten cancers in eleven years, most recently in June 2012 and is currently on radiation and chemotherapy.  Prentice took his Ph.D. in 1995 from The University of Texas at Austin in Curriculum and Instruction/Language and Literacy".  His previous degrees were also from UT-Austin, including Bachelor of Journalism (1970) and Master of Education/Curriculum, and Instruction, Social Studies (1980).

He began teaching high school journalism in 1976 and is certified to teach Journalism, English, Government and History in Texas.  He also taught regular high school English and English for Limited Proficient students in Los Angeles, CA.  He has taught journalism at the university level and was Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction (Teacher Education) st Texas State University until 2002, a year following his first cancer diagnoses and treatments

He likes to read, think, ask awkward and inconvenient questions and walk his dog.  His primary concern is to stop Industrial Capitalism-"Fueled" Catastrophic Climate Change/Global Warming or we're toast.  He is also a "dog person" and likes to walk his dog, Kiko.