Robert Fulghum was born in 1937 in Waco, Texas. He has several academic degrees, worked as a singing cowboy in guest ranches in Texas, Colorado and Montana, and rode in local rodeos. For twenty years, he was an ordained parish minister at Seattleā€™s Edmonds Unitarian Church, where he is now minister emeritus. Fulghum has travelled twice around the world, living in Thailand, Greece, Japan (in a Buddhist monastery) and France. He now lives on a houseboat in Seattle and spends his time sailing.