"All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars." – Captain James T. Kirk
I was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. I got hooked on Astronomy when I was 13. That year I “discovered” the Perseid Meteor Shower and a few weeks later saw the rings of Saturn through a telescope at the Dayton Museum of Natural History (now the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery). I would eventually become the planetarium director at that museum. I have a Bachelors and Masters degree in Physics from Wright State University in Dayton. I moved to Seattle and started teaching at Bellevue College in 1994, and have taught all the astronomy courses and most of the physics courses offered here. I feel very lucky to be teaching at a place that has both a digital planetarium and an observatory.