Bruce Robinson:  

Life Went to Canada College and graduated in 1971. Moved on to Stanford graduating in 1973 with a political science degree. Started my own business, Stanford Delicatessen in Stanford Shopping Center in the following year. Later I opened a deli-restaurant, Robinson's, in the same center. Alas, all that glitters is not gold. I became the man with lots of experience, but no money!! One of life's learning lessons. Sold the original deli and paid off my bills. Happily, along the way I met my future wife, and after 6+ years of dating, decided that it was time to make an honest woman of her, and married in 1983. We're still married, have two children, plus her original two, and four grandchildren (3 boys, 1 girl) from the older kids (40 and 37-year old kids!). The younger two are 18 and 21 years old. Gender is one of each for both pairs of children. After I sold my deli I interned with an attorney, but ultimately decided that practicing law was not for me. So I returned to work in the food business, working as a deli and catering manager and finally as a consultant for most of the next nearly twenty years. Over the course of the years of raising my kids, coaching them, and interacting as a volunteer with the YMCA, I came to realize how much I enjoyed working with kids, and decided I needed to somehow connect my lifework with children. After mulling the idea over for a few years I decided to take th...Expand for more