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A periodic record of thoughts and life as these happen via the various roles I play: individual, husband, father, grandfather, son, brother (brother-in-law), writer, university professor and others.

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I was born on Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, South Carolina, then lived a while in Fayetteville, North Carolina, before moving, at the age of 5, to Walnut, NC. I graduated from Madison High School in 1977. After a brief time in college, I spent the most of the 1980s in Nashville, Tennessee, working as a songwriter and playing in a band. I spent most of the 1990s in school and now teach at a university in Tennessee. My household includes wife and son and cat. In South Carolina I have a son, daughter-in-law and two granddaughters.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Early Birthday Surprise


I arrived at Honors House this morning to find that the several of the students had been up to something. They'll be gone from campus on my birthday--on Thanksgiving this year--and decided to decorate a little bit before they left. This is my office door in the old house. The floor upstairs was full of "Happy Birthday" balloons, and red and yellow streamers flew in the breeze at both entrances. They even threw one of the smallest kids in the program up on the first-floor roof to tie streamers to the downspouts that run down from the third floor to the second.

1 Comments:

Blogger nbta said...

That's great!

11/23/2010  

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