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1954 |
Born December 14, Albany, Kentucky, Ronald Wesley Stearns to Leah Rose Rector and Harold Stearns. |
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1954-1960 |
Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio. Sister, Rose Yvonne, born 1957. |
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1960 |
Parents divorce. |
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1960-1963 |
Dayton, Ohio. Mother works as a waitress. Thelma is our live-in baby sitter. |
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1963 |
Mother marries James David Tower. We move to South Florida. |
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1963-1973 |
School in South Florida. A few months in Hartford in 1963-1964. Adopted by new father and become a Tower. Graduate from Miami Palmetto High School, 1973. Brother, John David, born 1964. Wrote first poems at 15. All early poems are lost except "There Was a Man", written at 21, and "Koheleth and John", written at 25. |
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1973-1975 |
Hitch hike to Colorodo. Come back to Key West, where my parents have moved. Then Miami. Work in carpet warehouse. Then into a meditation ashram. Move to another ashram in Tampa. |
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1975-1979 |
College. One year Hillsborough Community College, Tampa. One year Florida Keys Community College, Key West. Two years University of West Florida, Pensacola. Graduate with BA in Mathematics. Publish a poem in Konglomerati. |
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1979-1985 |
Live in Dayton, Ohio with brief stays in Pensacola thinking of returning to school and in San Diego working. Work as software developer with NCR, in a small startup, and as an independent contractor. Marry Susan Poppa-Higgins in 1984. |
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1985-1995 |
Live in Granville, Ohio. Work at AT&T Bell Labs in Columbus as a software developer. Adopt our daughter, Shamsi, in 1986. Give away hand-made books of poetry under the titles Ballads and Pyrrhotown calling it the Junk Mail Project. |
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1995-1998 |
Live in Haifa, Israel. Work as a software developer. Publish three poems in Arc Light. Start an ongoing, growing, Web published collection under the title The Pyrrho of Martinsburg. |
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1998 |
Back to Granville, Ohio. Work at Lucent Technologies in Columbus as a software developer. Father, James David Tower, dies. |