In
addition to
having a great job and great people to work with, 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 degree in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University. He continues to live in Vancouver where he works for a small networking company called Koios Inc. , and plays at snowboarding, backpacking, and soccer.
Leslie moved to Vancouver last summer where she works as a
hairstylist at a small salon in Kitsilano. Linda and I miss them both a
great deal, but are thrilled that they'll be there for us when we
finally return to the west coast.  And
then there's Digby, our yellow lab. Digby
is in her fifth
year is finally beginning to realize she is no longer
a puppy, at least most of the time. She misses Bryan and Leslie
too. My mother Doreen - 86 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.Linda and I love travelling and seeing the world, and below are links to photos from a few of our 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 interested in genealogy, music, cooking, watching hockey (go Canucks!, go Spartans!) and soccer (go Liverpool!), and playing squash (wishful thinking for the most part these days). |
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Click on the links below to open our photo albums at "Smugmug.com" |