Greg Kagan:  

I dropped out of Cornell after three years, joined Vista and was posted to Minnesota. I spent a few years knocking around, periodically traveling around the country (including an estimated 16,000 miles hitchhiking and 6000 on freight trains. I eventually settle into corporate jobs, spent 16 years in Minneapolis and then, for reasons I still can't explain, accepted a transfer to Los Angeles. I tried, I really did! Lived a block from the beach, bought a surf board, and drove a convertible, but after two years (six months, actually) I had to admit that I'm not an L.A. kind of guy. (How much of an L.A. guy wasn't I? Well, my sales territory included Hawaii, which I gave away to another salesman in the region at the earliest opportunity.) My company offered me a management position in Dallas, which I accepted largely as a ticket out of Los Angeles (never a good reason for a move). Having, at that point, lived North, South, East, and West, I felt prepared to make a final decision regarding locale. Still, it took four more years to transfer back to Minneapolis in 1992, which felt, and still feels, like home. Soon thereafter I quit my job and took up freelance writing and marketing consulting, which has been my livelihood ever since. In 2001, I met Julie, and in '03, at the age of 55, relinquished the title of Minnesota's Oldest Never-Married Straight Guy. We live in a 140 year-old former farm house that used to be on the outskirts of Stillwater MN. After WWII, the town grew, so our place is now surrounded by post-war houses on what, I suspect, were pieces of the farm. A house that old can keep you pretty busy. I do a...Expand for more