With a father in the military, my childhood was rather peripatetic. I was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and within a year we had moved to Columbus, Ohio. Shortly after that we moved to Puerto Rico, then El Paso, Texas, back to northern Utah, then Oklahoma, and finally, Utah again. Family vacations were often spent in one or more of the many national parks in southern Utah, and I spent several summers with cousins in Holbrook, Arizona and environs. I graduated in 1978 with a B.S. in psychology, earned an MLS in 1986, and a Ph.D. in Library & Information Science in 2004. Somewhere in there I lived in Spain for close to 18 months. I lived and worked as a librarian in and around New York City for 10 years. I have lived in Baton Rouge with my darling husband and our rat terrier since 2006.