Robert is an educator, writer, EMT/first responder, storyteller, coach, actor, community volunteer, and stay-at-home father. He has picked tomatoes in Mexico, danced flamenco in Seville, and played rugby in southern France. He speaks fluent French and Spanish and is conversant in a few other languages, including Ojibwe. He has fallen in love with every culture he has ever known and has taught Native and non-Native youth everything from foreign languages to wilderness survival skills, native plant harvesting, and self-defense. He enjoys family and friends, travel, tracking, hunting, and practicing primitive skills. Robert lives in the North Woods of Minnesota with a dozen chickens, two big dogs, and one small wife. Their three children are out in the world making it a much better place.