This is a page dedicated to my family. If this doesn't interest you, why not return to my home page? These are the highlights of my mom, dad, and my sister
The Nuclear Clan
My Mom: The Unauthorized Biography
My Mom has a history which spans a huge number of links. She was born and grew up in Los Angeles, California. The year is unimportant---just assume she wasn't born in 1998. She is one of four siblings. As the only daughter in her family, she spent her early years defending herself from three brothers. She attended Los Angeles High School. After graduating early she had time to kill, so she spent six months studying at the University of Southern California where her older brother Larry happened to be attending at the time. The following year, she began studying at Mills College in Oakland, California. After a year she had a change of heart and transferred to Boston University where she eventually graduated. After graduating, she decided to pursue further education for a career in teaching. She was studying at the University of California, Los Angeles when she met my father. He claimed for years he met her in a peanut factory but I now know it was on a blind date. To make a long story short they got married, he got drafted, they moved to Germany, I was born, and a few years later they came back to the States and settled in Los Angeles, later followed by Modesto.
My Mom leads a busy active life as administrator of the GATE (Gifted and Talented Education)program at Modesto City Schools.
My Dad:The Man Who Gave Me My Face
Besides giving me a face, my Dad has seemingly infused me with a strong genetic case of wanderlust, otherwise known as that disease that sends you around the globe before you settle in one spot.
Although he got his start in Brooklyn, New York, my Dad spent his first couple years living on a military base in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. When the war (WWII, not the Franco-Prussian, the 1848 revolutions, or the French-Indian Wars--hey he isn't THAT old) ended, my grandparents with Dad in tow returned to New York. My father has one other sibling, a younger sister. After growing up in Brooklyn, he attended The City College of New York. While he was there, he also managed to squeeze in a few classes at New York University. Due to the fact he studied so hard, he attained his goal which was to enter medical studies. He received his MD at The State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo for short.) While he was in Buffalo, he had the opportunity to participate in a six month research fellowship in tropical medicine in Costa Rica. After finishing this degree, he went on to do his internship year at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. He then moved to Los Angeles and began his residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center then called Cedars of Lebanon. That hospital was and still is well-known as a hospital used often by the "stars" of Hollywood. Then the draft and Vietnam came into the picture. My father was sent to Germany, but just before he left, he married my mother and brought her along with him. After three plus years of medical service in the US Army stationed around the Rhineland-Pfaltz area, he came back to Los Angeles and finished his residency at the University of California, Los Angeles.
After finishing his residency, my Dad moved the family to Modesto where he began to practice medicine.
Although my parents are now divorced, they remain good friends and both still live in Modesto.
My Sister:Combat Warrior For Bathroom Territory
Let me begin by saying that some of my fondest memories of me and my sister as we were growing up were our pitched battles to conquer and occupy the bathroom in the morning before school. I dedicate any aggressive instincts I have to those times.
Lisa was born in Los Angeles and moved to Modesto when she was only a few months old. After years of following behind me to junior high, high school and various school activities, she cut out a very independent path (relieving herself of the little sister syndrome) by opting to go to Colorado College where she proved once and for all that she was different from me. She not only majored in two liberal arts (Religion and Womens Studies),she became one of the most active students on her campus
After finishing a Masters degree at The Boston University School of Theology She's taken a position with Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association EPVA
Final note: Want to see something hilarious? How about pictures of my sister at Foothill Horizons summer camp in 1984 and 1985.
