N. Patrick Peritore

I was born in Cleveland in 1944, but left for LA (with my parents) soon after and spent the 50s and 60s there doing nerdy kid stuff and going to college during the Vietnam War. Around 8 years old I walked a precinct for Adlai Stevenson, and was a political kid from then on. The 50s were paranoid,and with reason; I remember sitting on the roof with my uncles watching the nuclear tests in Nevada, a big loom of lights (and radiation), and the Minuteman missles in Burbank, and the FBI interviewing my mother for being president of the PTA (very subversive).I spent a year in law school in San Francisco and hated every minute of it, except for the fabulous City. Did my PhD at UCSB and started 40 years of teaching,at MU with stints in New Zealand, Romania,Argentina,Brazil and manic travel to 32 countries, and serious sometimes dangerous fieldwork in Mexico, Nicaragua, Brazil, India, China, Cuba, and so forth. I finally got tired of teaching the Twitter generation and retired to Recife Brazil where I am into sailing, doing underwater photography, and studying biology and physics, playing ukelele, doing lots of yoga, and working with my wife Liliane to sign-up bone marrow donors for all the cancers that affect children and teenagers. And keeping up the travel; next should be Tibet, and later a safari in S. Africa; great photography.