"Schoolboy, time to wake up and go to school so you can learn something so you can grow up to be somebody!" This is how Christian Burch's father woke him every morning for school, from elementary school, to junior high and all the way through high school graduation. And although it was annoying, it wasn't nearly as bad as Christian's mother singing opera as loud as she could as they walked around the mall. She wasn't doing it because she was an opera fan, but only to make Christian and his younger sister, Amy, cringe and to provide herself with entertainment. This is how Christian grew up in Caney, Kansas...constantly laughing through gritted teeth.
Eventually Christian became a male nanny, a painter, and a writer and used his real-life manny experiences and stories from his own childhood as inspiration for his novels. He lives in Jackson, Wyoming where he tubes the rivers in summers and teaches Visual Arts at The Jackson Hole Community School during the school year. The families that he has worked with for the past ten years are growing up and Christian excitedly watches as they "grow up to be somebody."
Eventually Christian became a male nanny, a painter, and a writer and used his real-life manny experiences and stories from his own childhood as inspiration for his novels. He lives in Jackson, Wyoming where he tubes the rivers in summers and teaches Visual Arts at The Jackson Hole Community School during the school year. The families that he has worked with for the past ten years are growing up and Christian excitedly watches as they "grow up to be somebody."
