“To use a Churchillian phrase, I have lived  a somewhat of a variegated life. Born in Las Vegas, grew up mostly in Southern California, quit playing college football and dropped out to live in a tree house in Hawaii and surf, survived the seventies, corporate America, and grad school, travelled all over the world, got married, had and have some wonderful kids and now grandkids. I crammed four years of college into ten undergraduate years before getting an MA in Renaissance Literature from Claremont Graduate School. I now resides in Nashville.”