"When I dropped out of college in 1970, I could not possibly forsee the series of happy accidents that would eventually
lead me to Hamline University. For example, I 'accidentally' dropped back in at the University of California at Davis, where I
bombed at being a Clinical Psychologist but discovered Social Psychology and graduated with a B.A. in 1973. I somehow
applied to the wrong set of graduate programs and was accepted in the doctoral program in Experimental Psychology at the
University of Michigan. I was completing my dissertation there in 1977 when some unlucky fellow turned down the offer of a
temporary position at Hamline. The department chair knew my graduate advisor and happened to ask if he knew someone to
fill the vacancy. My graduate advisor seized the opportunity to get rid of me, and the rest... as they say... is Psychology.
Specifically the rest is Learning Theory, Neuropsychology, Sensation/Perception, and Decision Making.
"When I am not a Psychologist, I am a darn good husband (to Marce Soderman-Olson) and father (to Mira), and they are truly
the best part of my life. What's left I try to distribute between guitar (fingerstyle jazz and ragtime), vigorous exercise and sleep."
