Peter Kazaks studied at McGill University, Yale University and the University of California, Davis. He was a physics professor and an administrator at New College in Sarasota, Florida, from which he took early retirement. He now lives in Davis, California, and does some teaching and some soccer refereeing. In recent years he has travelled with one or more of his children in the Pacific northwest, Nevada and Utah, but future trips will probably take him to visit his children and grandchildren who are dispersed along the east and west coasts of North America.