Education

• University of Iowa
• Roosevelt High School, Des Moines, Iowa

Favorite saying

• "Antoine de Saint Exupery: "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly--what is essential is invisible to the eye." Muchos anos despues, frente al peloton de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendia habia de recordar ella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevo a conocer el hielo. "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." Best First Line of a Novel-Any Language...Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" [translation by G. Rabassa]"