Husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, cousin, professor, scholar, author, reader, writer. My mother, Ella Jane Ellington (1939-2021), and my father, Jerry H. Hatfield (1938-2021), grew up and fell in love in their adoptive hometown, Cleburne, Texas, and we were an itinerant military (USAF) family of the Cold War era. Today my family bridges California and New England, and we are teachers, artists, activists, and nerds.