He first knew he wanted to be a writer when he was in fifth grade and pretty much kept the goal in mind through many different pathways and passages as he started teaching after graduating from Yale in 1967.

Way led on to way, but Jamie kept writing poems and stories for several decades until in 1982 he found his educational writing being published. He has now published nearly a dozen books and dozens of articles, but only one poem has been published in a national magazine . . . Cosmopolitan.

Jamie now lives with his wife, Gretchen, and five cats, Angus, Callie, Oliver, Charlie and Owen, in a two story house overlooking the Puget Sound in Bellingham, Washington. He is a full time writer, speaker and educational consultant who travels all over the world helping people to see how questions and new technologies might change the way students learn and the ways schools treat children.

He still loves sailing, living near the water, teaching, playing the guitar, singing and writing.