I was born in Seattle Washington in 1951 and my family moved to Bainbridge Island, Washington, across Puget Sound from Seattle in 1965. I've lived on "the Island" ever since. In the early 1970s I took up a career in carpentry after attending junior college at Olympic College in Bremerton. In 2015 I was elected to the Bainbridge Island city council and served out a four year term. I have two Toyota 4x4 trucks: a 4 cylinder extra cab 1988 and a 4 cylinder 2.7 liter extra cab 2004 Tacoma.