Barry MaherBarry Maher is a product of four years at the University of Notre Dame, an hour and a half at the Graduate Journalism Program at U.C. Berkeley, and five befuddled weeks at Burger King's Whopper College. In his misspent youth, his non-fiction appearedin perhaps a hundred different publications and, in order to eat, he held nearly that many different jobs. Sometimes he lived on the beach. Not in a house on the beach. On the beach. With the sand and the seagulls. After a sentence with a Fortune 100 company, he started speaking professionally. He told stories to audiences across the country and around the world: his client list a Who's Who of multi-national corporations and large associations. Eventually, that led to the Slightly Off-Kilter syndicated newspaper column. You may have seen Barry on The Today Show, CNN or CNBC and he's been featured in publications ranging from The New York Times, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal to, his persona favorite, Funeral Service Insider. On the downside, Barry's also been incarcerated twice. Once for not making a left hand turn out of a left hand turn lane, and once for aiding and abetting a loiterer. He's deeply repentant. Read More Read Less