• Retired independent Medicare Supplement agent
• Married to Sherry since summer of 1971

• Over a quarter century on-call blues-harp session player
• Taught cross-harp method at Memphis State University for 13 years

Sherry and I attended school together since I was a 2nd grader and she was in the 3rd. Yes. She’s 9 months older. We didn’t have much to do with each other back then, and only fell in love after we’d both gone off to and come home from college.

We married in 1971, and have one child, Sam, who’s completing his doctorate at U. Houston. 

We joined St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Conway, Arkansas in the mid 1990s. In 1998, we moved to Houston and transferred our membership to Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church. Then in 2021, we returned to West Tennessee and became members of St. Matthew’s in Covington, Tennessee.

Sherry worked in higher education from 1974 until retiring in 2021.  

I spent 5 years as Bureau Manager for the City of Memphis; 2 years raising our son (beginning when he was 3-months old); then worked as bartender and as wood-worker building fine furniture. I entered the health insurance business in 1999, and retired in 2018.

During those years, I also did recording session work in Memphis, and during our stay in Conway, Arkansas was keyboardist for a very solid oldies band – Yesteryear.