He wrote the "Who Am I" poem at the heart of his second book in 2001. It sat in a drawer for twenty-three years. The books are his answer to that whisper.

David D. Doda was born on a June afternoon in 1949 in New Haven, Connecticut — one of seventy-six million American children who would become known as the Baby Boom. He grew up in the postwar suburbs of Derby, Connecticut, in the kind of neighborhood where screen doors slammed all summer long and every father drove to work in the same direction at the same time every morning.

He surfed Manasquan, New Jersey at thirteen. He captained his high school football team and earned All-County honors. When the college scouts came calling, he chose Wake Forest University — a small, scrappy school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, that hadn't won a football championship in living memory.

He played tight end. In 1970, while Kent State burned and draft numbers were called over dorm-room radios, his team did something nobody expected: they won the school's first-ever ACC football championship. Picked dead last in the conference, they finished first. That season became the subject of his first book, No Offense, No Defense, No Hope! — published in 2025 on the 55th anniversary of that improbable year.

After Wake Forest, David earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Florida, then spent fifteen years in the defense industry. He founded Earthcare Technologies and later co-founded eFMLA Inc. Along the way, he raised a family, watched the country he was born into become several different countries in succession, and started writing about what it all meant.

The "Who Am I" poem came to him in 2001. He typed it up, printed it out, and put it in a drawer. For twenty-three years it sat there, occasionally surfacing, occasionally getting reread, never quite ready to become anything more. Then, in 2024, he started writing the book it had been asking for all along.

That book — Who We Are: It's About Time — is a memoir for the Baby Boom generation. It traces two parallel lives, his and hers, through every decade from the Forties through today, weaving personal milestones with the history that shaped seventy-six million Americans. It is, in many ways, the book he was always meant to write.

David lives in Brookfield, Vermont with his wife Nancy of fifty-five years. He runs his businesses remotely, follows Wake Forest football, and writes from a desk that looks out over the autumn maples.