Norman Travels

Places lived

Duluth to San Pedro, with stops in Cambridge, Barcelona, and Saint Paul.

Places lived

Cities only. Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, then Cambridge, the Twin Cities, and the South Bay.

  • 1970–1980 Duluth, Minnesota
    Born at St. Mary's Hospital; Homecroft Elementary through fifth grade.
  • 1980–1988 Lake Minnesuing, Wisconsin
    Unincorporated, between Lake Nebagamon and Solon Springs. St. Croix High School, class of 1988.
  • 1988–1992 Cambridge, Massachusetts
    Harvard College, class of 1992.
  • 1992–1993 Procter & Gamble years
    First job out of college.
  • 1994–2003 Bloomington, then Duluth, Minnesota
    US Bank, Sun Microsystems, Cargill, Wells Fargo, and Soft Center Duluth, with the last semester of the master's in Barcelona (1998).
  • 1998 Barcelona, Spain
    ESADE, final semester of the M.A.
  • 2005–2007 Saint Paul, Minnesota
    Downtown, finishing the Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota.
  • 2008–2014 Carson, California
    First years on the faculty at CSUDH.
  • 2015–present San Pedro, California
    Home.

Why this page

People ask where the accent comes from. This is the honest answer: ten years in Duluth, eight on a lake in Wisconsin, and everything after that borrowed a little from each stop.