Tell me about the world. The stillness of night punctuated only by the occasional zap. And a small voice beside me. Tell me about the world, she would say.

A native Californian, marooned on the East Coast, changing his life and coming home. From Summer of Love to Annapolis in 17 Years. Probably long forgotten by him, became an implicit directive in my life to go to Annapolis to make my mother happy. They wanted me to do. Like my father, both grandfathers, and great-grandfather before me, I raised my right hand with a shaved head and took the Oath of Office as a Midshipman in the United States Navy on 2 July 1985. This entry was posted in Annapolis.