In
addition to
having a great job, which is what this web site is mostly about, I am
fortunate to have a wonderful family and lots of outside interests. My
wife, Linda, was the "girl next door" when we were going to
high
school in Vancouver in the 1970s. We have been happily married for 30
years - it is really something special to have your best friend also be
the love of your life. Linda works for the Michigan
Department of
Agriculture, where she manages the Grape and Wine Council.
Consequently,
one of my outside interests, predictably, is to help Linda with her
"research".  Linda
and I are blessed with two adult children, Bryan
and Leslie.
Bryan has just graduated from Simon Fraser University where he
comlpeted a degree in Computer Science. He is currently traveling in
Australia and Southeast Asia, but plans  to
return to Vancouver to
pursue a career in computer networking that interferes minimally with
snowboarding at Whistler and soccer. Leslie is studying
graphic
arts and photography, currently at Lansing Community College. She hopes
to shift gears for a while this summer, and take a year-long course in
Cosmetology at the Aveda Institute in East Lansing.  And
then there's Digby, our yellow lab. Digby
is in her fourth year but
is still a puppy at heart. She spent the first half of 2007
living with
our friends Travis and Tammy while we were living in Tasmania for my
sabbatical. Hopefully she won't find moving back into our
suburban home too dull after living with several cats, a rottweiler, a
donkey and two horses!  My mother Doreen - 83 years young
- lives in Victoria, B.C. in a
waterfront home that is a joy to visit. Each of my four
siblings
live in the Pacific northwest: brother Peter in Vancouver, sister
Chrissie in Seattle, sister Pat in Summerland, and sister Peggy in
Victoria. We are envious of them all (they can see mountains!), but we
get to visit pretty often, and we'll end up there one day.I love travelling and seeing the world, and below are links to photos from several of my recent trips. While traveling or at home in Michigan, Linda and I (and Digby when she's with us) like to go geocaching - it's a great way to find places you never knew were there. I am also interesting in genealogy, music, cooking (never enough time), hockey (go Canucks!, go Spartans!) and soccer (go Liverpool!). |
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Click on the links below to open our photo albums at "Smugmug.com" |