About Me
Brief Bio
I was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, in mid-1978, to a doctoral candidate in Ecology and a teacher. Life was kind: I had it good. In the spring, I'd climb the cherry tree in our backyard after listening to Peter and the Wolf and try to catch (hang) our household "wolf," a small Cairn Terrier (think "cream-colored Toto") with a piece of rope. From the beginning, I was doomed to do what I do: live the difficult life of someone who is interested in just about everything at the same time: I was always taking things apart, including at least two watches (one of which was my father's - bad move on my part), a dryer door (never closed right again), and my parents' patience. After some time moving about - during which I suffered the birth of my childhood nemesis, my sister - we settled in St. Albans, WV, a small town located inconveniently halfway between Charleston and Huntington, but really "close" to neither place.
It was here that I developed one of my favorite childhood pastimes: "getting lost." My neighborhood, a suburb of a suburb, now known as a "bedroom community" because all anyone ever does there is sleep, had a vast tract of forest stretching south and west along the Coal River (pic at right), and my friends and I probably broke several parental rules by wandering through that forest - which had, along the riverbank for a few precarious miles, a nice, two hundred foot cliff for climbing and finding caves - for treks of up to twelve miles during the summer. During the fall, it was more fun to just go and see what we could see. West Virginia gets a bad rap in a lot of cases, sometimes deserved, but it's an incredibly beautiful state that will eventually go to waste as certain natural resources pirates loot it for all they can.
I attended Nitro High, graduating in 1996, and then the University of Charleston, where I was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon and the Men's Crew. During this interesting, frustrating, and confusing era of my life, I met Sarah, the first great love of my life, who stubbornly refused to date me until after she left Charleston and realized just how awesome I really am. In 2002, I moved to North Carolina, where she was teaching, and eventually enrolled in graduate school. Sarah and I were married on July 10, 2004, a year before I completed my Master’s Degree in American Literature and theory at NC State University.
So now we're in North Carolina. On May 29, 2006, our lives changed forever when she gave birth to our daughter, Arabella Sophia (right, on Father's day 2006). We still live in Raleigh, where I'm currently in the third year of my Ph.D. program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media at NC State University [ Link ]. Sometimes I even get to see them (joke, but only a little).
Menu Links in Brief
My Family Site — http://family.cbberg.info
We live rather far from everyone else in our respective families as well as all of our friends. This site is for my family & friends to keep up with us: blog, photo galleries, movies, and media archives.
Photography — http://photography.cbberg.info
Photography is a hobby of mine, sadly one that I don't get to keep up with. I do, however, like to post my photos to this site. Galleries and occasional updates - all of the photos are licensed Creative Commons 3.0.
Links — http://www.cbberg.info/links.html
Links to some of my favorite sites - by category.
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