Merrill C. Hubbard was born in Burbank in 1944 and grew up in the San Fernando Valley. He graduated from the School of Theology at Claremont in 1979 with his Ph.D., and has been in practice as a psychotherapist for the past 33 years. His doctoral dissertation, entitled "Aging With Integrity," helped to focus his thinking on the important issues throughout the life cycle as well as a deeper understanding of the aging process. For many years a single parent to his now grown son, Dr. Hubbard continues to live in Southern California. Just a few years ahead of the baby boomers, he is a traveler through the stage of life of which he writes.