Okay, that wasn't me. That was a photo of my dog Pixie, who I love very much.
Briefly, I was raised in Atlanta, Georgia. I attended elementary and high school here (Oglethorpe and the now-defunct Southwest). Among my childhood memories are years playing Little League baseball, chess, and tennis, doing and loving mathematics, and becoming a pathetic devotee of the Atlanta Falcons. I also earned my bachelor's and master's degrees in Atlanta (Morehouse and Georgia Tech). In the midst of this, I spent my third year of college abroad at the University of Durham, England. Scholastically, I made Phi Beta Kappa. Socially, I made Kappa Alpha Psi, becoming "Coop the Nupe".
After graduation, I moved to California, where I lived in Oakland and did my doctoral work at Berkeley. I often say that I grew up at Morehouse and I grew out at Berkeley, both physically and spiritually. They're both such special places to me. I love the Bay Area; it will always be my second home. While there, I became enamored with teaching mathematics at all levels, college, high school, and elementary. During those years I played Ms. Pac-Man, liar's dice, poker, bid whist, pinochle, and softball (I was third baseman for the Transfinite Cardinals of Berkeley's mathematics department). I also enjoyed beaches, barbecues (as host of "the" annual event, MeatFest), and baseball (the A's from the pre-renovated left-field bleachers of the Oakland Coliseum).
My formal education completed, I moved to Maryland, first for a post-doc, then for my first faculty appointment. I married there in 1995. I joined the mathematics faculty of my alma mater, Morehouse College, in 2002. I'll likely write more here some other time.
--d.c.