I was born and raised in Minnesota of Swiss and Norwegian descent parents. I joined the Air Force, bounced all over the world, and wound up here in north Texas - or Baja Oklahoma, as we call it. I'm interracially married to a central Louisianan, and my Panama-born (while we were stationed there) children are with their military spouses in Okinawa and England. My brothers and cousins are scattered all over the globe. So while I'm technically currently a Texan, my ties go everywhere.