In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.