Miles "Rick" Curl was born and raised in Kansas City, Mo. He was educated in public elementary school and Catholic high school. He has an BA in English from Benedictine College and an MBA from Webster University. Rick is a retired advertising executive with AT&T Publishing. Later he was an adjunct at the University of Phoenix. He has written a memoir titled,"Like Two Peas. He was a guest columnist in 2008 with the Kansas City Star Newspaper and he has spoken at the Washington Press Club. He and his wife Ann love to travel, recently traveling to South Africa where they sailed the Southern Cape from Namibia to Mozambique.