My father was a genius! It is not all that easy to live with one! He was a plantpathologist and a professor at U.C. Berkeley. He really did not approve of me going into Theatre and introduced me to his professor friends as, "My son, the professional Liar!"

My mother and I were close. Where my father was compulsive about his work, my mother was compulsive about gardening. This is not a really good picture of her but, in a way, it's the best picture... Mother in the Garden! You can see a better picture of her... the one I painted.

We were sort of sworn enemies when we were kids but we have become very close in our maturing years. He is compulsive about electronics. He is now living in Northern California with his wonderful wife, Marilyn. This is a picture of him with the two surviving sisters of my Father: Aunt Marie and Aunt Meta.

In other words... the four of us were all compulsive about SOMEthing! None of us ever decided what we were going to do with our lives... we just always did it!