John McCann:  

How does one even begin to neatly summarize all that has happened in my life since June 24, 1972! Well, first off, as suggested by the "now and then" photos, middle age does have its compensations...like finally being able to afford those boutique guitars you could only dream about as a teenager! (Note: that photo is from 2006 or 2007, so my hair is a lot grayer now, and there's less of it.) As also suggested by those photos, some things never change, like my love affair with the guitar. Any day I haven't picked one up, check for respiration and a pulse! After graduating from CK, I spent one year at Manhattan college, but then transferred to the State University of New York at Binghamton, graduating in 1977, one semester late courtesy of a drunk driver. I then attended Harvard Law School, graduating in 1980. Most of my career has been with the Social Security Administration, having been employed there since June of 1990, but earlier in my career I did enjoy brief forays into both the nonprofit sector and state government as a lobbyist and as commissioner of the Virginia state agency for the blind from 1986 to 1989. I married in 1981, had a child (Deirdre Jeanne) in 1986, divorced in 1988, entered a committed relationship in 1991, then exited that relationship in 2002. On July 31, 2014, I retired from federal service and am now very happily living in Tucson Arizona with my sweetheart Emily, her mom, my guitar collection, my amateur radio station (KW4U), and other creature comfort...Expand for more