Charlie Brown

I grew up the fourth of eight children in a Catholic family and ended up a struggling agnostic. I found my belonging place with the Des Moines Valley Friends Meeting of Quakers. I have two children. My oldest is a daughter whom I adopted, and my youngest, a son, is mine by birth. I have been married just short of 14 years to my wife, Susan, and my first marriage ended just short of 32 years. I have worked construction, metal fabrication, and designing prototype machinery, most recently for the recycling industry. I have also spent nearly a decade working with youth through the Boy Scouts of America.