Lindsay Brambles was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1959. In 1968 his father, an electrical engineer, signed on with a Canadian subcontractor to CIDA for a job overseas. This began a decade of living and traveling in Pakistan, Iran, and Tanzania. Lindsay also spent time with his parents and siblings in England, Greece, France, and Kenya.
After grade three, his formal education was largely through the Ontario Ministry of Education correspondence course—with infrequent forays into traditional schools. He has spent most of his post-academic life in a variety of unrelated jobs, ranging more...