Diverse, literate, quirky, curious, passionate, thoughtful, balding, John is a former teacher and licensed attorney, now retired to the beach in California. He graduated from Arizona State University (BA in Journalism), University of Texas (MA in Radio-TV-Film), Arizona State University again (MBA), and the University of Arizona (JD). John has run competitively on three continents and has broken his nose 15 times. His favorite color is orange. Married in 1998, with a son born in 2002 who is both smarter and more stubborn than he is.