I was born in 1936, the first of five boys and two girls in Sanish, ND, and was raised all over the western United States until the age of ten.
We lived in VanHook, ND, until 1949 when my widowed mother moved us to Alexandria, MN. I was graduated from Alexandria’s Central High School in 1955.
My nearly ten-year Cold War military service was with the Army Security Agency in the U.S., Far East and Europe.
I worked in retail management for a number of years and earned a BA in Technology Education at Central Washington University.
During my teaching years, I earned my MS in School Administration at Portland State University.
My first writing was developing classified technical documents for the Army Security Agency as a GS-5 civilian.
Before retiring from teaching in Kelso, WA, several of my vocational education articles were published in national journals. I was contracted to write a series of technical manuals for Tektronix of Beaverton, OR. I presented several of my papers at state, regional and national vocational conferences.
My writing for Tektronix turned into other technical writing opportunities at Weyerhaeuser, Cascade Microtech (now called FormFactor), Bottom Line Technologies (BLT), USNR, Clark College of Vancouver, WA (training material development for Shin-Etsu Handotai America), and several others.
My wife since 1959 and I live in Vancouver, WA. We have three adult children, seven adult grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.