Grew up in southern western mid michigan, did a lot of fishing as a youth, spent a lot of time in the woods, learned to forage, developed some mad craft skills, grew some great gardens. Went off to college and messed it up and dropped the childhood faith. Couple of long relationships, 11 year marriage, single again. Did a lot of work in tech industry, ISP's, NOC, then biology with the USFS and as a farm manager. I settled a few years ago up in the upper peninsula into an IT job. I spend a lot of time volunteering with various gardening groups and the local Lions club.