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A brief tour of my life: Born in Iowa. Grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Saw duty on aircraft carriers. Married, with an adult daughter. BA, MA, PhD in English. That leaves out how the breeze felt on my cheeks when hiking through the high Sierra, how I cried like a baby when told my mother had died, what I felt when my daughter took her first steps. But as a brief tour it will have to do.

Like everybody else, I have tried to make sense of this crazy world and what I am left with is this: Though I hold no sword of orthodoxy, above all I believe in human caring, conscience, kindness, self-control, self-responsibility, and respect for others.

Coming Soon: McDonalds on Mt Everest

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