R: Tell me a little bit about your heritage? Where your family comes from.

C: My family, as with so many Scandinavian families were Maritime people and when they came to this country my uncles bought a tugboat. was 8 years old the first time I stepped on the deck of a Tug boat and I felt that power. I always knew what I wanted to be from the time I was 8 years old which was to be a Tug boat Captain and I achieved that and retired off of the tugboats.

R: Everyone I know who knows you comments on your love of life. Can you attribute that love of life to any one individual or