My path to Colorado State University has taken me all over the US. I grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago (the "north shore"), before beginning college at Illinois State University. I was not the most diligent college student, but once I decided to take my education seriously, I finished my undergraduate degree at Florida State University in philosophy. It turns out that the things that interested me weren't the things philosopher take seriously, so I decided to pick up an MA in rhetoric (which did take my interests seriously) while I determined what to do next. Graduate school proved that an academic lifestyle was for me, so I traveled north to the University of Minnesota to obtain a Ph.D. I left Minnesota completing all my requirements except a dissertation, and began work as an instructor at Georgia State University in Atlanta and then Villanova University near Philadelphia. Once I completed my dissertation, I started as an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa before I found myself in rural Pennsylvania at Penn State. Circumstances took me to the desert at Arizona State University for a year, and then I spent two years at the University of Arkansas before I finally landed here at CSU. It's been a whirlwind, but I'm finally where I belong.