Places lived
Cities only. Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, then Cambridge, the Twin Cities, and the South Bay.
- 1970–1980 Duluth, Minnesota
Born at St. Mary's Hospital; Homecroft Elementary through fifth grade. - 1980–1988 Lake Minnesuing, Wisconsin
Unincorporated, between Lake Nebagamon and Solon Springs. St. Croix High School, class of 1988. - 1988–1992 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard College, class of 1992. - 1992–1993 Procter & Gamble years
First job out of college. - 1994–2003 Bloomington, then Duluth, Minnesota
US Bank, Sun Microsystems, Cargill, Wells Fargo, and Soft Center Duluth, with the last semester of the master's in Barcelona (1998). - 1998 Barcelona, Spain
ESADE, final semester of the M.A. - 2005–2007 Saint Paul, Minnesota
Downtown, finishing the Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. - 2008–2014 Carson, California
First years on the faculty at CSUDH. - 2015–present San Pedro, California
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Why this page
People ask where the accent comes from. This is the honest answer: ten years in Duluth, eight on a lake in Wisconsin, and everything after that borrowed a little from each stop.