I'm a fairly laidback, if highly sarcastic individual, who tries to stifle my cynicism and channel my energy to saving the world--at least the parts I can.

My earliest memories include wrapping a towel around my shorts-clad legs to walk to school when my bus broke down in Saudi Arabia and driving a go-kart the wrong way on a one-way track in Denmark’s Legoland. My jobs have included providing hot dogs and root beer floats to suburbanites, herring and squid to Stellar sea lions and wicker furniture and pearl necklaces to the rich and famous of the Hamptons. When not glued to my computer, I can usually be found curled up with a book or attempting to complete one of a half dozen half-complete craft projects so that I can start a new one.