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Brad Newsham believes that the reason none of his careers--underground miner, newspaper reporter, waiter, bank secretary, and San Francisco cabbie--have lasted more than a couple years has something to do with the fact that he wandered into Afghanistan when he was twenty-two years old and made himself a promise. Take Me with You is Newsham's second book; his first, All the Right Places, is also a travel memoir. Newsham is a guest columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and lives in Oakland, California, with his family.
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Tell us about yourself (e.g. personally, politically, and professionally).
I've heard it said that one should be able to tell the pertinent facts of
one's life in two minutes, and I think I've got that down. I'm 48, born and
raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. My mother is the daughter of Czech
immigrants who moved to Western Pennsylvania in the early 1900s--her dad was
an underground coal miner. My father was a CIA cartographer for 33 years.
Both were Christian Scientists, and although I am a graduate of Principia
College, a school for Christian Scientists, I don't claim a Religion -
except,
perhaps, reading. I have an older sister and two younger brothers scattered
between D.C. and Tokyo. I've lived in ten different states and visited all
50, and I've circled the Earth four times. With one chain saw and no
electricity, two friends and I built a big log cabin from scratch, sort of,
near the Clark Fork River in northern Idaho twenty years ago. I'm in my
second and last marriage, and my wife Rhonda and I have a three-year-old
daughter, Sarah, who has completely seduced us. I've worked in restaurants,
on ...
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