I did one year at Grove City College, before joining a Mennonite commune, helping out in impoverished Oklahoma City neighborhoods. Grew up (a bit); then started pre-med at OU, while working as a pulmonary perfusionist. This was not what I was looking for either, though, and went to Seattle to discover other things: Skiing, Scuba, Chinese history and journalism.  Worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the advertising department; then moved to Taiwan to study Chinese.

After coming back from Taiwan in 1984, realized that I still wasn't employable, so went to Thunderbird and got an MBA. Met my wife there (also in the China program), and we headed off to China in 1988, where we lived for 10 years. Our two kids were born there (I referred to them as "Sino-foreign cooperative joint venture high-quality products" which is a riot if you spoke Mandarin and were in China in the early 90s. You had to be there). Had a bit part in a Chinese movie "The Last Aristocrats". Got to play an obnoxious drunk barbarian at a classy wedding. Pretty bad movie, but I was made for that part. (Unless you were in Hong Kong, you probably didn't see it.)

Do I use parenthetical phrases too often?  (It sure seems that way.)

Played keyboards in the most popular mediocre band in the world, the "Neibu Review". Thousands would come to see performances and throw peanut shells in our direction. (Entertainment was scarce in the late '80s in Shanghai. Standards were low. Admission was free, and since they were giving away the peanuts, well... people came).  We practiced nights in the shell of a concrete skyscraper under construction 24/7, and the workers from the countryside would literally hang outside the windows, staring in at us with their woven bamboo helmets, trying to figure out what star system we were from. 

Bayer sent me to Germany, where we lived for three years. Spent every free moment (and the Germans have plenty) in our Mondeo Combi wagon checking out the European peninsula. Returned to the States in 2001, and have been working for Siemens Diagnostics for many years now as a business development and licensing guy.

Our son is 22 and trying to get into Med School, and our daughter is 19, at Quinnipiac University. Life has been absolutely superb, and the best is yet to come.

I have enjoyed reading the bios, and am looking forward to catching up with my old friends!