And I was kind of a deadbeat for a while, but I eventually landed a six dollar an hour job at the local Shopko, not to mention the role of Sparky in the local community theater’s production of “Forever Plaid”. When I came back to Wisconsin, financially broke and sorely humiliated by the Savannah experience, I moved in with my sister Jill and brother Mike who occupied the first floor of a nifty duplex home in Monroe, Wisconsin. It ended suddenly and badly, due mainly to poor planning on my part. I got straight A’s that semester and I’m still proud of it. I thought I might be a professor – a notion I’d picked up while dating a professor – and even did a semester as a graduate painting student working toward my MFA at the Savannah College of Art and Design in the fall of 1997. I studied art and English at Carroll College (now Carroll University) in Waukesha. And I like it a lot, even though it’s a far cry from what I’d imagined for myself when I was growing up in Paddock Lake, Wisconsin, a town of about 2,500 about 15 miles west of Kenosha, which sits on Lake Michigan mid-way between Milwaukee and Chicago. I’m 35 years old, and work as a project coordinator for an engineering firm in Madison, Wisconsin. I’m Midwestern and gay, and I’m a dad too.
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