Graduate student in literary nonfiction program at the University of Oregon Dept. of Journalism and Communications ... older than average (40) -- lots of background in small weekly and daily newspapers. And, with a debilitating addiction to British automobiles that I hope to pass on to my 8-year-old son, Nate, despite the best efforts of my far-more-practical wife, Natalie, who drives a Civic Hybrid! My dad's first car was a Sunbeam-Talbot, and my mom had a Hillman Minx for a while in the mid-70s -- until its single brake cylinder failed while coming up on the Weyerhaeuser logging road in Molalla, Ore. This very nearly resulted in death, and that was the last British car my family infested right up til Pop bought the Jaguar I currently own.