Lisa Cook:  

Greetings from Fargo, North Dakota. Yes, there really is such a place, and I am happy to consider myself almost a native after living here for the past 12 years. You all would know me as Lisa Waltz. After high school I attended Olivet College, where I met my husband, Greg Cook. I graduated with a major in English (surprise, surprise) and a minor in Journalism with an emphasis in Radio Broadcasting. Greg and I got married in 1987 and graduated from college in 1988. We moved to Lansing where Greg got his PHD in Chemistry from MSU and I worked at a radio station. In 1994 we moved to the San Francisco Bay area so Greg could complete his postdoctoral studies at Stanford. We lived there for 2 years (we call it our two-year vacation) and then moved to Fargo in the summer of 1996 when Greg was offered a position teaching Chemistry at North Dakota State University. After surviving our first winter, which happened to be the infamous year of blizzard after blizzard and then the 100 year flood in the spring, we realized that it couldn't get much worse and decided we liked it here. :-) Our only child, Spencer, was born on July 31, 1997, which makes him 11 going on 21. We are getting ready to experience ...Expand for more