Jim Bastian is a former high school history and psychology teacher, who converted to capitalism, earned an MBA and proceeded to have a 35-year career in business, most recently providing corporate organizational and human resource assessments. During that time he, his wife, and their two daughters relocated from Wisconsin, to Illinois, to Orange County California, to Sarasota, Florida, before settling in Brookfield, Wisconsin where he presently resides when not at his cabin in the Northwoods pursuing snowshoeing, skiing, hunting, fishing, trapping and taxidermy as time and age permit. Writing is an evocative avocation, meeting his criterion of what can be done productively in sweatpants with a cocktail. He is the author of Wisconsin Logging Camp, 1921.