I grew up in Michigan, then moved to Pennsylvania to go to college. I finished college at Fairfield University in Connecticut, where I lived for six years. I've been married for 20 years and have four kids who are the delight of my life. Really! We live on a hill in the woods in a small town in what I've always called the back end of nowhere. I downhill ski with my kids when the planet's acting like global warming isn't happening, which is becoming less often. I love traveling but hate taking the same pictures as 4 million other tourists, so I take the back roads and never go on those bus tours where they drag you to fourteen cities in two days. If I watch tv, it's usually TLC or Discovery Channel or MASH reruns. I'd rather be reading, though.