I have three wonderful adult children, three grandchildren and a loving wife, Kate, who is a Unitarian Universalist minister. I grew up in the Susquehanna River Valley at the foot of Bald Eagle Mountain in Williamsport, PA, and, until moving to the Washington DC area about eight years ago, was a life-long Pennsylvania resident. Because I grew up surrounded by nature and in the woods and streams constantly, I have a special connection to and love of nature (one reason we have 2 dogs).