I'm married to Linda.  We met in the singles department at First Baptist Church in Kingsland, GA.  Our first date was the day after the Berlin Wall fell.  We've been married since 1990.  We don't have children.

I work as a satellite uplink audio engineer at AM 750 and NOW 95.5 FM News/Talk WSB.  I produce the syndicated versions of the Neal Boortz Show and the Clark Howard Show.

Back in the 70's, I was a newspaper sports stringer and writer covering tennis, golf, track & field events, Little League and other sports in my hometown.

I graduated from Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro) with a B.S. in Radio/TV/Film.  Before that, I got my A.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Hinds Junior College in Raymond, Mississippi.

In my leisure time, I listen to a customized radio station on the web playing a collection of my favorite artists.  I watch old movies up through roughly the 1960's, and I also maintain the web site for my high school class where you can see a different version of my autobiography.

I was born in Muncie, Indiana, and grew up in Jackson, Mississippi.

My sister is 3 1/2 years younger than me.

I've lived in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, California, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia, and have now been in Georgia nearly half my life.

Interesting places I've visited include the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns (New Mexico), Yosemite National Park, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert and the Redwood Forest (California), Montreal (for the 1967 World's Fair), Niagara Falls, New York City, Alaska, and the Mayan ruins in Central America (Mexico and Belize).  New places I'd like to see in the future include Europe.

Yosemite

Mojave Desert

I'm an Atlanta import, and moved here as a result of unemployment during the big recession of the early '90s.  I've been in Georgia since 1987, and migrated to Atlanta in late '92.  We plan to leave metro Atlanta after retirement to alleviate my asthma.  We may move to Chattanooga to volunteer on the railroad excursions at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.  Railroads have always been my only other career interest, and I travel around the country to ride behind steam locomotives, so I'd like to ride the rails for as long as I can after retirement.  Mom says the second word I ever spoke (after "light") was "wewo" (railroad).  She always said I had a one track mind with a (literal) train running both ways on it.

My father was a psychology professor in colleges around the country, and Mom was a college librarian.

I accepted Christ in the spring of '72 at the church where I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi.  Not being a swimmer, I feared the baptism like crazy, but I somehow survived it.

Memorable events include finally graduating from college (1985), the day I spoke the first words on a brand new radio station (1987), when Linda and I started dating (1989), getting married (1990), when my father died (1996), and the day I was hired at WSB.

My favorite music artists are Scottish folksinger Al Stewart, Abba, Billy Joel, the Electric Light Orchestra, Three Dog Night, Art Garfunkel and George Gershwin.  My favorite albums are The Visitors by Abba (1981) and Famous Last Words by Al Stewart (1993).  I have 600 LP's.

Al Stewart

Abba

George Gershwin

My favorite actor is Orson Welles and my #1 actress is Ingrid Bergman.

My favorite movies are An American in Paris (1951, Gershwin music!!), The Sound of Music (1965), Citizen Kane (1941), Titanic (1997), and several of the James Bond movies of the Sean Connery and Roger Moore era.  My favorite TV shows are WKRP in Cincinnati (1978-1982) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994). My favorite cartoon is Road Runner.

An American in Paris

WKRP in Cincinnati

Road Runner

Noticing something about my list of favorites?  Yes.  Every artist or production mentioned is past their height of popularity, disbanded, deceased, or the show is out of production.  Whatever's grabbing the headlines these days is something I know nothing about.

My favorite TV show themes are Perry Mason, The Bob Newhart Show, and The Odd Couple.

Our domestic animal is a Lab mix of chocolate Lab and some short haired breed, probably a Dalmation.  Her name is Topaz and she was born about 2003.  We adopted her, fully-grown, from the pound.  Her name is inspired by her color, although she's also been given nicknames including "Punkin' Doodlebug" and "Miss Prissy Britches," which Linda will often call her, "Cement Head," which we both call her at times, and "Bob Barker," which is a nickname that only I use for her.  What with having no children, we have plenty of time to lavish on Topaz, including taking her on our mandatory 30-minute brisk walk every day.

I was 10 years old when I first got involved in church music.  My parents made me start singing in the childrens' choir, and I protested, but it grew on me.

I'd like to learn to play the saxophone.

My voicepart is Bass.

My favorite Baptist hymnal (choosing from 1956, 1975 & 1991) is 1956.

My favorite hymns are the classics from the 1500's through the 1950's. A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (Martin Luther) and Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee (Beethoven) are certainly among my favorites.  The older the hymn, the more likely it's one of my bigs.