Mark Ayers is a human and a philosopher serf. He lives in the City of Edmonds, the State of Washington, the United States of America.

He enjoys the various advantages of a great city and a small coastal town in a region nestled between two mountain ranges and divided by the Salish Sea and a series of freshwater lakes and rivers. Life there is a wonderful combination of outdoor adventure and indoor entertainment.

Mark lived in Italy for a year in the early 1980s and in Turkey for a year in the early 1990s. He earned a degree in political science at The University at Albany, State University of New York and now works on the technology behind a global top 100 website.

_The views expressed here are his own. They are not endorsed, reviewed, or approved by any other person or organization._