Larry Farmer

I was born and raised in Harlingen on the border with Mexico on the southern tip of Texas, near the Gulf of Mexico. I was raised with old school values on a cotton farm. After high school I went to Texas A&M and was in the Corps of Cadets there. I quit in the middle of my senior year to join the Marines in the hope of going to Vietnam. I also served in the Peace Corps in The Philippines. I travelled around the world between these two events in my life and saw enough to need to relate it.

I worked for eleven years in Switzerland. I married there and raised two of my three children there. I came home in 1998 and spent the remaining twenty-five years of my professional career at Texas A&M. I am an author of several published novels in my retirement. And finally have time to reflect on my life and its meaning. And write about it.