If my grandfather hadn’t gotten out of the family business of mining coal…he wouldn’t have joined the Merchant Marines, ending up in Detroit where he met and married my grandmother, and they wouldn’t have had my father who had health issues requiring a warm and dry climate which made them move to southern California where…

Rocking the boat, Causing waves, Upsetting the status quo, Confronting authority, Being a troublemaker, Making mountains out of molehills – Though I would argue I’ve never made a mountain, Only recognized it in its infant molehill form and called it what it one day would be. No, I’ve never liked it, Never wanted the fight,…