: About Me

I am from Southeast Texas, Orange to be precise. I managed to make it all the way through high school without too much difficulty, unless you count the frequent time spent in detention hall. My college career was short and notable for nothing, unless you count the time I spent not going to class. After college I married and moved back to Southeast Texas. I now live in Bridge City, Texas with my third wife, Audrey, two dogs, Clutch and Yogi Bear and a cat named Tiger. I worked for thirty three years, eight months and two days(but who counted?)in an oil refinery. In the refinery I started my long and arduous journey to becoming "a storehouse of useless information". After the career in the refinery I worked for five years as a rodeo announcer, covering most of Texas and even Colorado. This was in keeping with my lifelong love of anything Cowboy, the old kind, not the new stuff of movies and television and "new country" music. My neck is red and I am "proud to be country." I firmly belive that when it comes to music, "Bob Wills is Still the King!" If you don't know what that means, ask, I'll be glad to tell you.

My passion is ...

Being laid back and watching the world go by.

I know too much about ...

So many things that I don't know enough about most things.

My parents always told me ...

To clean my plate, children were starving in Europe. (I am a child of the '50's)

My childhood ambition ...

To be a Cowboy or a Firefighter or a Policeman.

My favorite memory ...

Is not one I care to share, some things are better left unspoken.

Why I write ...

As an outlet and for enjoyment.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I read non-fiction mostly and watch documentaries about World War II whenever possible.

My first job ...

Working for my Grandfather in a Cemetery, mowing grass and digging graves and anything else that came along.

My best moment ...

Not taking a fall from a very high place when I was a scaffold builder.

My inspiration ...

Remembering.........

Sports & Recreation > Sports & Recreation (Other) Rodeo: Bull Riding - The Bulls

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Professional Bull Riding has been touted as one of the fastest growing sports in the world. The PBR has done the most to bring bull riding out of the world of rodeo into a world of its own. From a start of twenty bull riders with a strong desire to see their sport grow and become a world of its own to today's multi-million dollar, highly promoted and advertised sport. Bull riding has become THE extreme sport. The bull riders are highly skilled and highly devoted to doing what they love in spite of the almost certainty of being hurt, sometimes seriously, sometimes fatally. Much is known abo...

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