James Vyvyan is an adjunct faculty member at Alverno College and has spent four decades in the classroom. Jim and his wife Barbara, have a family of five children and ten grandchildren. He grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm and has been storing away experiences and events since he was old enough to write. The characters in A Badger Tale have been building and developing in Jim's mind and have finally come to life in A Badger Tale: Adventures of a Wisconsin Farm Family.