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Three days after Pearl Harbor ("Everything happens at once," was my mother's comment). Connecticut Yankee (transplanted to California), Stanford University, BA in Philosophy, minors in Psychology and Geography. Stanford-in-Italy. UC Berkeley, MA in South Asian Studies. Free Speech Movement. Freedom Summer. Peace Corps India XXIV. Elementary teacher, school bus driver, transportation supervisor, transportation planner, transportation routing and scheduling software r & d. Lives with cats, reads science fiction and historical fiction, walks in the rain, whispers to dogs. Writes the occasional story, listens to classical music. Earthquakes, El Nino floods, civil insurrections, fires, demonstrations, strikes. What's next?