As a budding PR/Social Media practitioner, I am aware that no one, as a general rule, likes to read long diatribes online. Therefore, the following is the Cliff’s Notes version of what you need to know about me (not necessarily in order of importance–just in the random order of my mind). Enjoy!

  • University of Texas graduate and diehard Longhorn fan. Although it hasn’t been medically proven, I believe rooting for either Texas A&M or Oklahoma can be highly detrimental to your health.
  • Married 10 years to a beautiful, supportive woman (pic of Beth below)
  • The light of my life is my two-year old daughter (pic of Grace below as well)
  • Currently unemployed, but hoping to change that soon
  • Have penned a fantasy football column for http://www.fantasyfootballtrader.comfor 3 years. That column won the 2008 Best Humor Article of the Year award from the Fantasy Sports Writers Association. (Yes, that is a real organization–http://www.fswa.org/. Yes, I have the trophy to prove it.)
  • Passionate about blogging, social media, writing, theatre and public relations in the new age
  • About to finish my Masters in Communication and Public Relations from Northern Kentucky University
  • Funny, self-deprecating, acerbic at times (but aren’t we all)
  • Former professional actor of 17 years. Got to work with Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan and Joshua Jackson to purposely name-drop. However, sadly, they won’t remember who I am. So don’t bother asking them. Well, if you know them personally, that is.
  • Own a doodle, or doxi-poo, dog named Tex.  We like to call him Tex the Wonderdog.  However, after his experimentation with cross-dressing at Halloween, he has yet to live up to the “wonderdog” title. (Sigh)  Yes, there’s a pic of him below too.

You can learn more about how this blog has evolved into its current form (evolution). There will be video incorporated heavily into the content (as I’ve just got a new Flip camera–gosh, I love new man-toys!). I plan on offering advertising as my name in the Daddy Blog-o-sphere becomes larger. As such, I will add information about advertising as it becomes relevant.

Finally, you can check out the pictures of me and my family below. Strangely, I can’t find one of my wife by herself. She’s made avoiding the camera, unless she’s with my daughter, an absolute art form.

Here’s me in all my glory.  In case you are unable to tell, seeing as you can’t see the whole costume, my daughter was a Lady Bug for Halloween.  First time she figured out that you just stick out an ugly looking plastic pumpkin and people fork over candy, it…was…on!

 

Harvest festivals with hay bale mazes and small children are a combination that never ceases to send the unintentional comedy meter through the roof.  If I had owned a Flip camera this past fall, the video of the scene that the picture comes from would have floored you.  Seriously.

As I mentioned already, the wife never seems to get caught on camera without the little lady around.  I think my daughter is starting to become like Linus’ blanket for my wife, when cameras are involved.  I believe I will rectify this issue with video.  Or I will end up divorced.  Either one.  It’s 50/50 at this point.

Finally, the aforementioned embarrassment of Tex the Wonderdog.  This is what happens when ladies underwear and small dogs collide.  I like to think that he’s smarter than that, and that he was simply trying to come up with a quick, easy costume idea so he could go Trick ‘R Treating with the rest of the family.  But even I think that’s stretching it.  I’m sure he’ll live it down someday….right?