A Little Bit About Me Personally…
First… “Pickleball.” There, I said it. I was bound to say it sooner or later, so I thought I’d go ahead and get it out of the way up front. Of all my various obsessions hobbies, this is the one that currently most defines me and gives my life purpose. My fictional alter-ego is a late-night/mid-day advertising litigator who goes by the sobriquet “The Texas Paddle”™.
I grew up in Beaumont, Texas, where I played football for Forest Park High School back when there was such a thing. I am a Delta Tau Delta fraternity alumnus, and so are four of my five closest friends (that brothers-for-life stuff they fed us during Rush turned out to be true after all). I used to build my own primitive bows and shoot a lot of traditional archery, until there were just too many drawbacks. I enjoy country-western dancing and West Coast Swing but can’t always find the time. And I love to scuba dive, despite all its ups-and-downs. I once owned a thoroughbred racehorse that never won a race (making it just an expensive horse, I guess). A buddy and I taught ourselves how to ‘gators hunt watching “Swamp People” and caught two big ones on our first self-guided hunting trip. I play darts, washers, 42, croquet, cribbage and a bunch of other games you might only read about in the pages of Obscure Sports Quarterly. I also follow Japanese Sumo, Olympic Curling and Arizona Wildcats Softball, all for reasons I can't really explain. Oh, and I’m the worst golfer I know who has played for as long as I’ve played.
My wife and long-ago legal secretary, Catherine, and I have been married for over thirty years. Never having had any children of our own (because we love to sleep late and hate soccer), we are a proud aunt and uncle to four nephews, two nieces, one great niece and dozens of surrogate nephews and nieces through friends. We currently live in Benbrook, Texas in a home that belongs to our mini-Aussie, Emma.
