About me? Born in Covington, Kentucky.. grew up in the Midwest; lived in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Arizona. I went through 7 schools in that time, and more towns in those states than I care to think about most times. For sake of simplicity, my home town is Marengo, McHenry County, Illinois. On graduation from high school had the options of small town living of going to college or going into the "family business" (working in a factory).
I took option three and joined the Military, the United States Marine Corps to be exact. Spent eight years there, and never regretted it. During that time, I visited, lived or was stationed in Virginia, California, Washington DC, Japan, Oregon and Okinawa. Oh, and a little stint over in a really big sand box.
I finally left the Marines and returned home to "readjust to civilian life". My home town drove me... stark raving bonkers. So.. I packed up and moved to Arizona. I've lived here for ten years (July 1996 to present)(well, except for a 6 month excursion to Ithaca, NY and a year and a half back in Illinois) more time than I have lived in any one place with the same group of associations in my entire life.