Grew up in south Seattle. Lived in Elizabethton TN, Tacoma WA, Dubuque and Ames IA, St. Paul MN, Besancon and Albertville France, Cameroon Africa, Minneapolis, Moorhead and Barnum MN, Twin Falls ID, Kennewick and now East Wenatchee. Married, divorced and remarried. Three children, 7 grandchildren spread from Seattle to Germany.