Kenneth M. Cadow

Kenneth Cadow lives in Vermont with his wife and three children, a dog and three cats. Throughout his multiple careers of student, taxi driver, naval officer, grocery store owner, editor, and high school and middle school art teacher, one thing has remained constant: he has always been a writer. For several years, he was editor of The Upper Valley Parents' Paper, a parenting magazine that served New Hampshire and Vermont. Mr. Cadow has run away many times in his life. Starting at age six, when he skipped school by hiding in a raspberry patch. He found it rather boring, and when he returned home, his mother asked him if the berries were ripe (yes, she knew it all along). Another time, around the age of nine, he dug a hole for a fort, covered it with a rotting piece of plywood, and decided to live the life subterranean. Although he brought his stuffed dog, Smooch, his sleeping bag, and peanut butter crackers, the venture was even shorter and he was home within the half-hour. His love of forts has not outgrown him, but these days, he runs away with his family to a 700 year-old house in a hamlet of southern France, and to a yurt in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.