I grew up a as a surfer her in Southern California. Surfing was the love of my life for many years.

After I graduated from college I moved to Hawaii and worked in marine construction building piers, dredging harbors, and stacking rocks in the Jetties.

I have and affection for all things nautical: boats, pirates, fish surfboards, and yes... ANCHORS!

While my wife was pregnant with out fierst child we had an ongoing debate concering what name to give the child if it was a boy. I kept kidding my wife and making my mother-in-law nervous by insisting that I intendedto name the child "BARNACLE."

Well, we did have a boy. My wife did such a heroic job birthing him I figuredshe earned the right to name him. We named our son BRENDAN. His middle name was going to be Alex. The night he was born I went home alone from the hospital to sleep and I had a flash of inspiration. The birth had been very hard and very long. We had planned a home bith wiht a midwife but we had to go to the hospital when the baby got stuck. My son's middle name would be Anchor.

I named the office after my son.