PortlandAssociate at Living Wealth Partners LLC I was born in DeKalb, Illinois, and spent my first nineteen years there except for the second grade when my mother took us to Oxford, England, to live during... I was born in DeKalb, Illinois, and spent my first nineteen years there except for the second grade when my mother took us to Oxford, England, to live during the 1972-1973 academic year. I met my wife Susan in 1993 in Baltimore, and we moved to Maine in 1997.