If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income.

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As the son of a minister and an alumnus of a Quaker-affiliated college Barry avoided military service during the Vietnam War by registering as a religious conscientious objector. Barry and Beth worked together at the Daily Local News in West Chester PA where they began their journalism careers on the same day in September 1971. While with the Miami Herald he created a band with his colleagues and named it the "Urban Professionals" where he played lead guitar.