Full Name: Marc Andrew Healy
Age/date of birth: 33 /November 6, 1967
Married: September 20th, 1997 to Heidi Lyn Zwart. Click to see our!
Favorite foods: beef stroganoff, fried clams, Chicken in just about any form
Favorite fruits: mangos, strawberries and pommegranites
Favorite vegetables: New Mexican green chiles
Favorite ethnic cuisine: All of them
Favorite drinks: Guiness Stout, Campari, dry reds
Favorite smells: Newly-fallen leaves, ponderosa pines, campfires, freshly-cut grass, old books, assorted kitchen smells
Favorite music: Mostly classic jazz and orchestral. I also like to listen to soundtracks (again, orhcestrated) world music (especially Celtic), and assorted odds and ends that catch my attention.
Hobbies: Cooking, camping, film, photography, picnicing, any number of arts and crafts, putzing about, listening to NPR, herpetology, astronomy, singing in the shower.
Biggest strengths: I'm pretty adventurous, have a good sense of humor, and I'm very well-intentioned.
Biggest weaknesses: Short attention span, impatient, fully capable of putting my foot in my mouth, take things too personally.
Pet Peeves: Cell phones, SUVs, people who talk on their cell phones when they drive their SUVs, people who are fundamentally opposed to walking up or down an escalator, native English speakers who mangle the language, people who bring their kids to zoos and fill their heads with misinformation (especially those that confuse monkeys with apes, aquatic mammals with fish, and lizards with salamanders.
Pets: Two: A yellow rat snake named "Shoshone" and a giant Millipede named "Spartacus."
I attended St. John's High School in Shrewsbury, MA, Ripon College in Ripon, WI, and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. I have no current plans for more schooling- I have all that I can use right now.
I was born in Haverhill, Massachussetts, a small industrial city on the Merrimac River. I grew up in Oxford, however, a fairly small town outside of Worcester, MA. I was a happy, well adjusted child who liked to light fires and play with my imaginary friends.
When I was seventeen I went off to college in Wisconsin. I joined the orientation committee because I thought it would be a great way to meet freshmen women. I met my future wife on August 21, 1987, her first day of college orientation. Since then I've been a big supporter of volunteerism.
I graduated fom Ripon in 1989, but stayed on for two years as an admission counselor. After that, I decided that I wanted to be an anthropologist, so I applied to several graduate schools and ended up at the University of New Mexico. I really enjoyed graduate school, and I absolutely LOVED New Mexico. I left Albuquerque and graduate school to teach for a year back at Ripon, and after that I married my wife and joined her in Chicago. Since then I've been here in Chicago, while I've returned to Ripon a couple more times to teach. I decided that I don't want to pursue a career in teaching, and hence finishing up my Ph.D. didn't make much sense. I'm currently working at an advertising firm in Chicago as a freelancer while I decide where I want to lay down my roots and start my next career.