Title:  Reading and Writing

Seq:    1.1

Level:  3

Body:

I was a big reader growing up, and enjoyed writing as well. 

But I was also good at science and math, and my Dad was an engineer, and some of my favorite books at an early age were the stories of [Tom Swift](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift), boy inventor. 

And then I received a full scholarship from Lockheed to study Engineering at the University of Michigan.  

So my path was set. 

But then I got to college (this was the fall of sixty-nine), and all of my favorite classes that first year were liberal arts courses, and all of my new friends were pursuing liberal arts majors, and my engineering classes, and fellow engineering students... well, how to say it... they seemed a bit pedestrian by comparison. 

So, leaving behind my scholarship, and taking on student loans, I changed my path to focus on reading and writing and the arts and the behavior of people, rather than the study of the inanimate universe. 

And graduated in 1973.

With absolutely no idea of how I was going to make a living. 

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And so, in this chapter of my story, I stumbled across some of my core values:

+ [[The Joy of Invention]] (with my love of Tom Swift)
+ [[The Sanctity of the Written Word]] (with my four-year degree in English)
