I
am a family man. I am blessed with a wonderful family and fortunate
to share a loving relationship with my wife Stell. Our two daughters
and their families provide us with our most cherished times.
Travel and outdoors activities are favorite pastimes. Indoor
badminton, the fast and strenuous kind, is my hobby and sport.
Sometimes Stell tells me she is #3 after badminton and work,
but I know she's just kidding.
My background
involved a lot of moving around, both growing up and in early
adult years. I lived in Florida, Washington, D.C., Italy, Maine,
Rhode Island, Wisconsin and New York City. Relocation is old
hat to me! These growing up experiences prepared me for many
of life's choices. After receiving a liberal arts education,
Peace Corps Volunteer work in rural India was my immersion into
the real world.
Later, a
five-year tour of duty with a large international bank returned
me to live in India, this time in an urban setting, introducing
me to a diverse group of people in a wide variety of businesses,
from shrimp farming to exporting emeralds.
My Peace
Corps efforts to help people enhance their self-reliance, combined
with my experience in banking and creative interests, led me
to my next career move. My partners and I exported decorative
handicrafts, mostly of our own design, from India and Africa
for U.S. consumers. A most rewarding aspect was offering employment
to woodworking craftsmen, numbering more than 300 in a south
India village, and to women basket weavers across central Kenya.
Ten years
of intercontinental travel and long periods away from home gave
way to my career in real estate in 1986. Stell, Leslie and Jen
beckoned me home for good.
Tel
: (802) 846-9508
