John Young is a retired Programmer/Chemist who lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and two Bengal cats, siblings who are one year old. Born in 1944, John's father and mother were 40 and 38 years old respectively, having been born in the early 1900's and lived for 80 years. This spanned the end of World War One, the Great Depression, World War Two, the Korean War and the Viet Nam conflict. They saw the flight of the Wright Brothers, and most of the inventions and changes we take for granted today. John was very close to his parents and their point of view. At eighty-two, he feels almost as if he has lived twice that and can bring a perspective unlike what most authors are able to convey. John has four grown children and 19 grandchildren, so far.