About Doctor BLT

As the oldest of three, I took on adult responsibilities when my dad died when I was eight. I wanted to be a vulcanologist when younger, (think Pierce Brosnan in Dante's Peak) or an earth scientist like Helen Hunt in Twister. 

Instead, I went down a path involving a series of poor decisions. With no guardrails of middle-class lifestyle to contain me, I dropped out of high school and began shift work at a sugar factory. 

One night on a graveyard shift I 'woke up' and realized that without major changes, I would work in that factory until I died. A friend was going to college orientation and I tagged along.