I grew up in New York, moved to Virginia for undergraduate work, then went to Tennessee for graduate work, UCLA and Nevada for post-doc work, then back to New York for a time as an Assistant Professor at Columbia University before somehow ultimately ending up at the University of Missouri in late 2001. I hung out there for a while, but in late 2019 it was time for another move, this time to the desert southwest of New Mexico State University. Along the way there have been research stints on Isla Barro Colorado (Panama), in the Adirondacks and Hudson Highlands of New York, on Isla Cozumel (Mexico), in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, the Brazilian Pantanal, the Missouri Ozarks, the Terai of Nepal, the Ouachitas of Arkansas, and the grasslands of Maharashtra, India. All as an excuse to study carnivores, wildlife diseases, and fun ecological issues.