High school slowly but surely came to an end. I began receiving college recruitment letters for football junior year and continued throughout senior year. Recruitment letters from Brown, Princeton, Cornell, Northwestern, UCLA, I can’t recall the rest. However, my parents somehow talked me into going to Abilene Christian University where I had no scholarship (although […]
BEGINNING YEARS I was born on March 2, 1984 in a small town called Hobbs, New Mexico. My family lived in Lovington, population 9,000, about 15 miles away. This was and still is oil country. You won’t find much else here besides oil trucks, oil services, and oil companies. To most this is barren wasteland, […]
Hey all, what’s cracking?! I hope everything is good with you all and I’ve actually missed saying “what’s cracking” quite a bit! Let’s move on – I’m on kinda of a new type of philosophy if you will. And it”s not so much a philosophy but a way of life. Basically, I’m not going to […]
March 1, 2017 10:00 PM Dallas, Texas in some condo – I’m sitting in a living room with my mother, father, sister, her husband and my wife. I’m nibbling on some trout and making small talk. My mind is constantly reminding me that I have to be awake at 4:30 AM to head to the […]