I grew up in Calabasas,
California, on the northwestern edge of Los Angeles. I was an
undergraduate at University of
California Berkeley, where I was a member of the University of
California Marching Band. I spent summers working in Boston,
Massachusetts; Dayton, Ohio; and Duluth, Minnesota.
I lived in Chicago for five years while I attended graduate school
at the University of Chicago. For a Southern California boy, I
took to the cold winters well, and I've lived in the Midwest ever since
(except for one year in Germany). I've lived in South Bend,
Indiana, and I've lived in Southeastern Michigan since 2003.
My brother Aaron Isaksen has a company called AppAbove that develops software for cell phones.
My brother-in-law Barry Bunin has a company called
Collaborative Drug Discovery
that "develops web-databases to help scientists more effectively
develop new drug candidates for commercial and humanitarian markets"
[not my words].
My grandmother Freda wrote a number of stories on many different
subjects, including some of my family's history. You can read
Freda's stories. If you're into genealogy and you have Jewish
Norwegian relatives, you might want to take a look.