Mark Harris:  

LIFE: Attended Brigham Young University and 8 other Universities since graduation; Has 3 degrees. Served as missionary in Mexico. Served in USMC during Vietnam era. Became High School Counselor in Nevada and joined Nevada Army National Guard and was called to active duty. Retired from U.S.Army in 1994 after 20 years as a Chaplain; I saw too much of my share of violence and crisis intervention and man's inhumanity to man and have become a bit calloused and hardened. Before and after my Chaplaincy, I also have 20 years as Educational Psychologist, School Counselor and Teacher (Special Education, Psychology, Spanish, Journalism) I have now lived 35 yrs in Washington State, 8 yrs in Nevada. My transitional employments included landscaping, construction, factory, grocery, farm, gas station, bus driver, military policeman, private security work, cowboy, Journalist, Hospital Administrator, Director of Public Relations, Job Developer, Counselor, Chaplain, Teacher (college, high school, middle and elementary schools). Married 21 yrs, 6 children, divorced in 1995. Worked and lived semi- reclusive lifestyle in remote, isolated desert and mountain areas in Nevada. In 2003, I followed an old cowboy tradition and married a young, "mail order bride" after 3 trips to the Philippines. She didn't like my cowboy, wilderness lifestyle. Cosmopolitan critter that I am, I adjusted accordingly and returned to the lush greenery and water environment of the northwest, in Washington. Surprise, surprise, in 2009 she returned to the Philippines, left me and I am single again. I bought a house in Puyallup and continue as a Special Education Teacher in elementa...Expand for more