Marcel LaperriereLike many Alaskans, Marcel worked in a magnitude of jobs. Those jobs included machinist, powerhouse mechanic, climbing and fitness gym owner, and owner of a web hosting service and online retail store that sold Alaska-made arts and crafts, logger andsawmill operator, carpenter, and director maintenance at a small liberal arts college, and a building contractor. He even did a year-long stint as a recruiter, traveling the state of Alaska looking for candidates for placement in a maritime academy. Not one to shy away from a challenge, Marcel thrived on hard work and hard play. He was an active scuba diver, logging over a thousand dives, a climber, a caver; with his wife, Connie, helped discover, explore, and map many caves in Southeast Alaska. As ALS started to creep into Marcel's life, he elected to look at the disease as just another adventure, one that had been forced on him. He and Connie decided early on to do all they could to fight ALS, but accepted that an ALS diagnosis, at this time, is always a death sentence. They decided to make the most of each day and live life happy to accept the horrific disease that ALS is. As Marcel lost his ability to speak, he started writing. His books include Just Another Adventure: Living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), The Adventure Continues: Living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), and his book of true-life short stories, The Road to Adventure. He is currently working on a book about sailing and the twenty-five years he and Connie lived on sailboats. Today he, Connie, and their beagle, Bella, live in a house that Connie, their son Zach, and he built in Sitka, Alaska. Read More Read Less