I am a retired scientist, having spent about 36 years working on the physical chemistry of molecules, mainly pesticides, and how that can be used to predict their environmental behavior and fate. My current interests are global regulation of pesticides, simulation modeling of pesticide behavior in riparian buffer systems, and the interaction (historic as well as contemporary) between science and Christianity. I am an amateur horn player, preacher, and photographer. My wife Mary and I are matriarch and pariarch of 6 kids, 11 grandkids and 2 greatgrandkids.