Please RSVP: 2013 Annual Conference

I am a local leader of SNAP in San Francisco and volunteer with SNAP as much as I can. I am a survivor of clergy sexual abuse when I was thirteen. I am married and have twin daughters who are thirteen. I retired two years ago.

This year my wife and I will celebrate 24 years together. In 1998 I became a father to twin girls at the age of 51. They are now thirteen, an age were they provide great joy and challenge. Due to the benefits of being a member of a union I retired in 2008 after working 30 years in a hospital as a technician. I am involved with by daughters' middle school and serve at the PTA secretary. I am also on a community advisory committee for the Board of Education. I have been taking cello lessons for about five years and enjoy working with stone in crafting mosaics as a hobby.

I have a long history of involvement in many political and social movements since the sixties. I began my political life opposing racism and discrimination. I then worked in anti-war activities for years (Vietnam). Throughout, supporting the Civil Rights movement has always been important work for me. I watched the start and dramatic growth of the woman's movement, the gay liberation movement, the environmental movement, and to varying degrees, worked with these movements to support these progressive changes. I did solidarity work with liberation movements against dictatorships and US military involvement. For decades I was involved with numerous left, progressive organizations and movements as well as support for organized labor and various community improvement projects . After my girls were born I began to focus on local and educational issues and especially the work to promote and improve public schools.

I was active member with SNAP in San Francisco from 1995 to 1997 and then moved on to focus on my family. In the fall of 2010 new horrific memories of abuse came forward which compelled me to seek therapy and once again be to be active with the San Francisco SNAP support group.

I have been fortunate that therapy and the SNAP support group, as well as the tremendous support I received from my wife and daughters, brothers and sisters and friends, has helped me in dealing with this crisis and on a path to a healthy future.

Come on Tim..you can easily beat me... I am exhausted.............. J we just keep on keeping on..!