Just a little ways from the historic Plaza, Sonoma General Hospital, now Hacienda Winery, was where I was born on Sunday June 6th, 1948 at 10:45 A.M causing my mother to miss Mass while the doctor and nurse mentioned to her that I looked like the Mexican Bandit, Poncho Villa,which was appropriate since California was owned by Mexico until about 1849 when ranchers revolted against General Vallejo and put up the “Bear Flag” in Sonoma’s 8 acre“plaza” which was a center piece of my growing up in Sonoma except for the seven years from kindergarten to the beginning of 7th grade during which time I lived in four different states, California, Texas, Kansas and Maine, two of them twice and such an experience gave me a “social” orientation since making friends easily was a requirement of being an Air Force “brat” as the moniker we got goes and was an advantage when we moved home to Sonoma in 1959, following Dad’s heart attack(s) and decision to wash out of the Air Force if he could not fly as a B-52 commander which he did, so it was home to Sonoma and I finished elementary school in town and was sort of ‘sent’ to the Catholic High school 14 miles over the hill in Petaluma because I was viewed as a bit of rebel/trouble maker/outspoken type but the experience in the co-ed Catholic High School was rich and wonderful for me and even inspired me to attempt college at a Catholic institution called St. Mary’s on the east side of San Francisco Bay and about 10 miles from U.C. Berkeley which is where I spent a good amount of time after leaving Sonoma in 1966, moving to Berkeley to attend U.C & St. Mary's on a shared degree program, lived with my cousin/godmother in the Berkeley hills, and I lasted for two years until I was arrested for inciting a riot at the Oakland Induction Center in 1968, transferred to U.C. Davis, pretty much gave up my social use of various drugs, finished my degree, started a Master’s program at CSU Sacramento, let it go, finished a teaching credential program, got involved in state/national student politics in the educational arena, traveled all over the nation as a member of Executive Committee of the student organization, met and married my wife Elena - soon to be a teacher - worked for the states Commission on Teacher Preparation and Licensing, where I co-authored with my best friend a pamphlet on getting a teaching credential and th