Jeffrey's creative outlet is writing children's books for his own kids to help educate them and stimulate their creativity. The above photo was for one of his books. Captain Chicken builds a time machine to go back to 1860 and examine the American Civil War.

Here's what Jeffrey had to say regarding the construction of his time machine model "the whole thing was scratch-built out of cardboard, wire, felt, and odds and ends I found rummaging through my kids' toy collections."