I am married (30+ years) with one adult daughter. 
After an extended undergraduate experience at Willamette (Salem, Oregon) and graduate school at USC, I had a brief Peace Corps tour in Costa Rica.
I worked for JPL in Pasadena for a few years before going to Washington, D.C. to work at NASA Headquarters. 
I retired from NASA in 2009 and now live in Fairfax County, Virginia.