About

About the Blog:

The content of this blog will be an amalgamation* (in the metaphorically metallurgical sense) of experience, observation, philosophy, deduction and insight with a little humor and speculation thrown in for flavoring…

* Dictionary.com:  “amalgamation…  4. Metallurgy. the extraction of precious metals from their ores by treatment with mercury.”

About me:

Just so you know a little of my background.  First, I’m an old man…at least that’s what my body tells me on occasion.  (It’s amazing how little things you do come back to haunt you years later…)

Thanks to my father’s military service and then mine, I have lived in four countries and visited 11 more. I have lived in 10 states and visited 32 others (not including the state of confusion which I visit frequently).  So I can’t say I’ve been everywhere, but I’ve seen, experienced, and done a lot!

Before graduating from Baylor University, I attended West Texas State University (now West Texas A&M University). My post-graduate work was done at two other universities and I even took some classes “for the fun of it” from a community college.  I have also taken a number of business and military classes that were applicable for the time.

In addition to writing, I enjoy photography, traveling, camping, making things with my hands, and tinkering with computers.  I also enjoy people – although there are exceptions – interacting with them, observing them, and sharing ideas.  I even enjoy arguing with them…as long as they understand that my position is the right one.

I’m married – I don’t argue with her because she doesn’t agree to the one stipulation mentioned above! Anyway, we’ve been blessed with three daughters, two sons-in-law, three grand-daughters and a guy who hangs around a lot (my youngest daughter’s boyfriend).  And, being a graduate of Baylor, it should not come as a great surprise that my wife and I still attend a Baptist church.

If all of that wasn’t enough to tire me out, I’m now re-tired – twice!  Once from the military and then from the civilian workforce.  But, I will also tell you I retired early…so I’m not THAT old!

– Dennis