I was born in Portland, Oregon and grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho. I earned degrees from Stanford University and the University of Washington, and became a lawyer 1976.
In 1999, years after traveling to the former Soviet Union, I founded the Companion Flag Project to elevate awareness of all that human beings have in common, their differences notwithstanding. The underpinnings of this campaign are reflected in the closing arguments of attorney Jason McQuade in Beyond the Sand Creek Bridge, and again in "The Sanori Flag Debate," the appendix to Dimension M.
I have four children and six grandchildren. My wife, Rochelle, is a talented Seattle-area actress. We are fortunate to live in a beautiful home overlooking Lake Sammamish, fifteen miles east of Seattle in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains.