A Surprising Journey This memoir is about my surprising journey from a dirt road on the outskirts of Yuma, Arizona to an endowed professorship at the world's greatest public university, and the nine life lessons I learned along the way. I was born a Baby Boomer to a working class family in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, but when I was six months old my family moved to Yuma, Arizona, where for ten years I lived on a dirt road on...