

I read a lot of comic books when I was a kid. Did you have any bad or funny habits as a child?.We played football in the fall, street hockey in the winter, and basketball all year. I joined organized programs like Little League baseball and Pop Warner football, but I had the most fun just playing in a field with the other kids in the neighborhood.



What were your favorite things to do when you were young?.We moved to New England a little more than a year ago to a small city with a busy downtown and a nice college that offers a lot of events to the public. Before that she was a sportscaster on ESPN-TV, which was pretty exciting. I’m married to a wonderful woman named Sandra Neil Wallace, and she’s a writer, too. I also competed in track and cross country in college, and still do today even though I’m over 50. By the time I got to high school I began to concentrate on running, and became quite good at that. I loved sports from the time I was very young. We’d get home very late and always had a great time. Sometimes my brothers and I would go into the city after school and meet him to have dinner and to watch a sports event at Madison Square Garden. My father took a bus or train into New York every day for work. That really contributed to my imagination.įrom my bedroom I looked out the window at Teterboro Airport right down the hill and New York City not far in the distance. We had a big house, but I always wanted my own space, so I’d spend a lot of time in the back yard or the cellar, playing games and sports (often by myself). We were all very involved in activities like Scouts, music (not me), art lessons, and especially sports, so my mother cooked a lot of meals in shifts because some of us would be late getting home and others would go back out for something in the evening. I had three older brothers, two younger sisters, and a little brother. I grew up in northern New Jersey in a very busy household.
