My home is located in the countryside of Mid Michigan, where I live and manage every aspect of my business from my fifty-acre farm that has been in our family for two generations. I grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in Saginaw Township. My parents designed our California ranch-style home, the interior of which was constructed with knotty pine, fieldstone rockwork and copper. My mother was an artist who inspired an endless array of creative ideas and brought colorful dimension into our family life. My father was an automotive dealer and distributor for Buick who had a dreamer’s heart and the mind of an entrepreneur.
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