D.K. McIntosh is a native of the Pacific Northwest and has traveled extensively throughout the world. His travels started at the age of seventeen when he boarded a DC 4 Airplane and flew to Alaska to work in a Salmon Cannery. The cannery was located in the Village Islands out in the Aleuitian Chain. D.K. is a veteran of the the United States Air Force and holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Information System Management from Antioch University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Willamette University College of Law. The law came as a second career after thirty years at IBM. D.K. practiced criminal defense in the various Courts of the Pacific Northwest for twenty three years.

Upon retiring from the law D. K. McIntosh rid himself of fifty years of accumulated stuff and sold his home in the Northwest. And, with four suitcases and a box containing his computers D.K. and his Tuxedo Snow Foot cat Mac, relocated to Costa Rica's Central Valley. After two great years in Costa Rica, D.K. and Mac returned to the Northwest. They now live in Arlington, Washington close to the foothills of the Cascade Mountain Range.