About

It would only be natural to want to know a little about myself and my background.  I am married to a wonderful women for more than 27 years and have four children, one grandchild, and the sweetest little puppy (well she looks like a puppy, she is a shitzu/pekingese mix), our dog Sophie.  I received my bachelor’s degree from B.Y.U., teaching credentials from U.V.U. with a second bachelor’s degree in biology education forthcoming, and my master’s degree from Mississippi State in the geosciences.  I received an honorable discharge from the military in the mid nineties, just after Desert Storm and the surrounding conflicts ended.  My original MOS was as a radio operator/mechanic and second MOS was in the field of military intelligence where I served as a Spanish linguist and in the field of counter-intelligence.  I completed a four year religious seminary and have taken many religion/philosophy classes throughout my time in higher education.  I am a fan of the Great Courses and have purchased/completed several including a history of the Catholic Church, Gothic Cathedrals, Science in the Twentieth Century, and Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition (I highly recommend the Great Courses to continue furthering ones own education and curiosity).  I have traveled throughout the United States, and hope to continue doing so.  I lived several years in Argentina and desire, now that many of our children are grown, to travel to many other new and interesting places.  Of all the things I have studied, I have developed a great interest in those things esoteric, hidden, or more obscure.  I have spent the last twenty plus years researching, learning, studying within these realms.  Overall, I feel my life has been a nonstop desire to know more.  At this time my wife and I are educators with over 32 years experience between us.  Before entering the world of education I spent time working with sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, nonprofit, and of course the government as well.  All of these had things to teach me, some that I liked more that others.  Growing up my family suffered some unfortunate circumstances where my father, via an accident, was forced into early retirement.  He had no education to fall back on, so he fell back on what he knew and that was the outdoors, hunting and trapping.  My father for all intense purposes was “Grizzly Adams” incarnate.  I grew up where trapping, making your own bait, hunting and learning to live on the least amount possible was a necessity.  By the time I left home my parents were replicating Anasazi artifacts and pottery as part of a home business.  My grandfather was an original river runner on the Colorado river and helped found some of the marinas found today at Lake Powell.  All were experiences that I would not give up, these experiences with my time in education, travel, and private study have provided a unique opportunity to delve deep into many a rabbit hole. In the end, if I have learned anything is the fact that there is so much I do not know, but I surely wish to learn :).