Conrad Paul:  

Life After graduating in 1965, my family moved to Orange county California, Costa Mesa, and I began studies at UC Santa Cruz. I started out as a Government major and ended up with a degree in Philosophy in 1970 (I took off for a while to visit family in Chicago and try to see the world). After graduation I moved into the Santa Cruz mountains and hung out for a couple of years. I learned more about photography, tried learning how to play jazz flute, and writing poetry. I'm not that good at any of it. I decided to go back to school and was admitted into the Masters Program at Northern Illinois University, where I was also granted a graduate assistanceship. I dropped out, got married and worked odd jobs before moving to San Francisco in 1975, where I learned to do machining, and worked as a machinist. I moved back to Chicago area in 1980 with my family. After a couple of years I d...Expand for more