Cranston Dize is a lifelong resident of Baltimore City, having grown to semi-maturity in Highlandtown and residing in the Belair Road/Harford Road corridor from that point on. Cranston graduated from college, too. He is a wiseacre, a practical-minded homeowner, a devoted son, a loving husband and sometime parent of three very large, aggressive boys, who would like nothing better than to trample you to bits in a mosh pit. He is also the stepfather of three sons. Cranston has worked as a teacher for more than twenty years and as a teacher mentor for five years. He is one of the first people to climb up on the rock now known as Independence School Local 1. His ambition is to catch a fish as big as an ironing board next year and to drive a motor coach for a living in his next life.