Jeff Staley:  

Life I married Barbara Wong in 1982. (Yes, she is Chinese American). We have two children, a son, Ben 19 years old, a sophomore at California Lutheran University; a daughter, Allison, 16 years old, a sophomore in high school. School Ah yes, my biggest crush. When it came to girls, I lived in a total fantasy world in high school. I loved to think about special girls and dream about them, but I was extremely shy when it came to actually having to talk to the ones I had crushes on! It was much easier to write poems about them. I would actually get physically sick and throw up before meeting them! I have told my sixteen year-old daughter (who tells me EVERYTHING about boy/girl relationships at her high school), that if I knew THEN what I know NOW about the way high school girls think . . . High school teacher who most inspired me? I had a sophomore history teacher at Shiprock who taught me how to make an outline from a class lecture. That has stayed with me down to today. I had a couple of English teachers who thought I had some writing ability. That was nice. I had a Spanish teacher at Shiprock (NOT Mr. Gallegos) in whose class I got a D for one semester, and thus I believed I could not learn a foreign language. Who would have thought that I eventually wou...Expand for more