I was born in a small town near Johannesburg, South Africa. After terrorizing the area for a few years, my parents took me and my new baby sister, Cynthia, to live in Columbus, Ohio for about a year and a half. In the early eighties we moved back to Africa, and settled in a beautiful asbestos mining town; Zvishavane, Zimbabwe. Our youngest sibling, Jeremy, joined us there and we spend several years enjoying the quiet and beautiful life there. Toward the end of the decade my dad, who was a non-denominational preacher, moved us further east to an even smaller, and more delightful community; Mashava, Zimbabwe. Many fond memories of primary school, and other adventures, were born there. I went to boarding school in Messina (Musina), South Africa. Hoerskool Eric Louw was a whole world of it's own. After a few years there, I participated in the Alpha Omega homeschooling curriculum until I finished high school. In the middle of the nineties my life changed when I moved to Albany, Oregon and began working at Rogue Wave Software. It was a few years later that I met my delightful bride Nita at RWAV. We were married, and lived in Brownsville, Oregon until the year after Destiny was born. We moved to Peachland, British Columbia where I volunteered and worked for a non-profit in Kelowna, BC; Hope For The Nations. Soon after the .com bust we moved back to the USA, and ended up living in Vancouver, Washington while I worked at MyShopping Community, then Jenkon, and finally I'm now working at TransCore in Beaverton, Oregon. |