Brief & Growing Autobiography of Mark David Fairchild

Revision 01/06/2025

A quick synopsis:

Born January 27, 1953 (Des Moines, Iowa) 7 years, 6 months, 12 days  [2,753 days] into the Atomic Age. (One month later James Watson and Francis Crick announced they had discovered DNA . . . [debatable AND debatable!]) 

Died . . . TBA (hopefully ... by someone, when the time comes?)

Married January 6, 1986 To  Sarah Louise (Sieler) Fairchild, b. June 24, 1959, d. October 30, 2017  (Aged 58.)

                (see  also: Sarah Fairchild | Nebraska Authors)

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Prologue 

Memoirs

Chapter:1: My Family - 1952 - 1965

Chapter:2: "A" & PTSD 1965 1970

Chapter:3: Exiled to Lincoln - 1970 - 1975

Chapter 4: Education & Monasticism - (1970 - 1975) 

Chapter 5: Sarah & Marriage - 1975 - 1986    (Poetry)

Chapter 6: Data Processing - 1977- 1994

Chapter 7: Astronomy - 1965 - 2024    (Science)

Chapter 8:  Sarah's Death & Aftermath - 2017 - 2024

Chapter 9: The End of All That - 1999 - 2024

Chapter 10: Today

KVS

Apendices:

1. Larry's Vietnam Narrative

2. Photo Appendices

3. KAZ + MDF FB correspondence excerpt

4. Some Reflections 

1. The Diamond 

2. The Campfire Of My Soul 

3. Thoughts

4. The Diamond

5. Ecumenism, As I Understand It

6. The Cygnet

7. The Male/Female Dichotomy

8. We Are Not Sheep

9. Finding God

10. Metaphor And Its Role

11. Notes on Reality

12. The Nature of the Metaphysical

13. What St. Mark's on the Campus' Mission ought to be (IMHO)

14. The Bishop vs the Drag Queen

15. Talking with God

16. Saying Grace

17. The Point of Christianity

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— Mark Fairchild, September 27, 2024 – August 17, 2024

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