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About Me — Rick Bartrand
Who is this multicellular avatar of flesh representing the stories behind the words he makes visible to the public?
An introduction to the person whose appendages make it possible to express the choreographed interactions with tiny lettered square subjects on a device called a keyboard. Constructing cohesive strings of verbiage to portray understandable utterings necessary for an interactive connection of intellectual expressions into a personal projection of my reality…
In other words…
Who the heck am I?
From The Beginning
Born in the mid-’60s, I started life in one of the largest cities in lower Michigan but city life was short-lived and within months of being hung upside down and slapped into breathing my first breath of tainted city air, my parents moved back to a small village in northern Michigan to reclaim their roots with family.
We lived with my grandparents while my dad went to school and by the time I was around 4 years old, we moved again. This time it was in-between the larger city and tiny village life to a mid-sized town on the lower east side of the state.
My main love in life was riding bikes, climbing trees, and exploring new places out in the…
