Dan grew up on a Missouri farm, which gifted him with mud between his toes, a talent for spotting morel mushrooms hiding among fallen oak leaves, and basic life skills like milking cows, shucking corn, and cleaning fish. Dan recently released the Interstellar Refugees trilogy on Amazon. see: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKW1C8QJ Dan’s favorite things include cooking for friends, playing board games with his lovely and brilliant wife of four decades, wandering mountain paths, and diving in the sea. Not to mention making things up and writing them down.