Born and raised in British Columbia, Canada; post-secondarily educated around the USA (Portland, Oregon; Valparaiso, Indiana; Columbus, Ohio; Claremont, California); re-educated in Lima, Peru; academically appointed (without anointment) at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto; metaphysically translated to Guysborough, Nova Scotia, including small-motor repair, white-knuckled sailing and the resurrection of dead real-estate (still awaiting eschatological consummation); currently suspended in the middle of a phased retirement; grandfather utterly without parental backbone.