Sure Rick, I'll volunteer. Born in Chicago '38, grew up in poverty in a Public Housing Project. After high school, Colorado State Univ, which I flunked out of after one year (I didn't know I had to go to class too - I made every football and track practice!) Back in Chi town, worked in a foundry goin' nowhere. Like Mudjack, joined the Marines. They gave me a chance to go back to college if I would sell my soul to them for a long time. Finished college at Univ of Kansas, then Quantico, MET CAROL, Vietnam, MARRIED CAROL, S. Calif, DANIELLE BORN, Monterey, LAUREL BORN, Vietnam, D.C., Quantico, up & down East Coast. Retired USMC '80. Next, United Technologies in CT, BOUGHT A GUITAR & DISCOVERED THE FOLK SCENE'89, discovered Oklahoma, now I'm with OK State Univ. Highlights are in CAPS. I'm also an active member of the Ok City Traditional Music Assn (octma.org)