my journey started march 4th, 1970 in fargo,nd. i was adopted my the folks i refer to as mom and dad. my dad was in the air force and stationed in grand forks. we moved to south dakota where my family was from and stayed there until i finished 6th grade. we then moved to jackson,wy. my parents split up and i ended up finishing high school in colorado springs,co. i joined the navy from there in 1988 and spent the first 9 months in san diego and finished the rest of it in philly at the shipyard. i had a daughter while i was in the service. she is now 18 already and out of high school, my how the time flys. i spent several years as an electrician after the navy and then got into law enforcement starting at a county jail, i am now a deputy sheriff back in the county my family started out in. i have been a master mason almost 4 years, i am a noble in the shrine and have gone through the york and scottish rites and am a member of the scottish rite research society.