Costea, Thom: - Thom Costea has certainly led a diverse life, from modest beginnings winning short story and public speaking contests to a career as a newspaper, magazine and radio journalist, photographer, speech and script writer, and later a video producer. Costea studied journalism and political science in Canada, all the while canoeing and hiking his way on a lifelong spiritual journey into the church of wilderness, as well as experiencing many interesting pursuits, such as lifeguard, ski patrol and paramedic, a competitive athlete and head coach, acting on stage, and advocating various community campaigns. These days he's acting half his age as an internet junky spewing out works of journalism, artwork, entertaining stories and of course pure fiction.