My wife and kids are my pride and joy!

• Ellen DeBenedetti (second from right) is my wife. She is a mediator, trainer in conflict management and mediation, and conflict coach. We met at Farm and Wilderness Camps.

• Jenya DeBenedetti (next to Ellen) has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and works on Control Room Design at Westinghouse.

• Abe DeBenedetti (left) married Emily Rook-Koepsel and had our grandson, Robert. Abe is finishing his PhD in physics at the University of Minnesota, and Emily is Assistant Professor of Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. She specializes in South Asian history, and Abe's research is at CERN. They live in Norman.