About

Love being a daddy more than anything-that's what I was put on earth to do. Love being a Marine and appreciate it now more then ever. I will complete a triathlon on my 100th birthday. Not a matter of if I'll run my first 100-miler, but when. I'm just genetically wired to be active-that's just who I am. Want to live a life with a deeper meaning, help others, and teach my children to respect the enviroment. Want to push my physical and mental boundries,learn about the vastness of the universe, and staying committed to learning and living.

Education

• University of Oklahoma
• University of Southern California
• Carroll University
• South Milwaukee High

Favorite saying

• ""I can ascribe exact memories to songs by Joni Mitchell, The Microphones, Built to Spill, Dungen, Harry Nilsson, and so many others, and it's a form of recall that I can actually trust. There's no visual element to complicate things, no chance of a planted memory that wasn't actually suppossed to be there and that is reassuring to me. Maybe I should be concerned that I'm alone in almost all these memories, but I guess I was just a private kid and music was a private experience for me. I can even remember the certain kind of darkness my room would have when I was in there alone listening to records. I can read a good book cover to cover and never once forget I'm sitting in the middle of four slabs of drywall on a spring mattress in Seattle-same with movies and TV and anything else. I can listen to music and instantly be anywhere that song is trying to take me. Music activates a certain mental freedom in a way that nothing else can, and that is so empowering. You can call it escapism if you like, but I see it as connecting to a deeper human feeling than found in the day-to-day world." -Robin Pecknold of the Fleet Foxes "I reckon I must be just an old softie, 'cause I still believe in love. And I think the best is yet to come, 'cause where I'm from is also where I'm going." James Taylor "You wasted life, why wouldn't you waste the afterlife?"-Modest Mouse lyric "They said Kaliforny is the place you ought to be so they loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly...Hills that is." (Still a brilliant concept; an Ozark family from the Hills moves to Beverly Hills because they think it's hill country). "The best friend I ever had?-I don't know that it's a who, 'what' would make more sense. Calm is a good friend of mine." Elliot Gould in Esquire magazine, Oct 2009"