Daniel was born in Freiburg Germany where he began his formal education at the Adolf-Reichwein-Schule in Freiburg and became in German. In 1978 at the age of 11 his family moved from Germany to Lebanon Pennsylvania and he began to read and write in English. In 1992 Daniel graduated from Tennessee Temple University with a B.S. in General Science In 2002 he earned a Master’s in Education from the University of Tennessee and is currently pursuing Doctoral studies at Liberty University while teaching GED classes in the Nashville Tennessee area.