Born 14 August, 1957 1962-72: St. Elizabeth Primary School (Dallas, Texas) 1972-73: Bishop Dunn High School (Dallas, Texas) 1973-75: Longview High School (Longview, Texas) (really) 1975-77: Stephen F. Austin State University (Nacogdoches, Texas) Select Students Program (Concentration in Philosophy and History) 1977-79: B.A. University of Washington (Seattle, Washington) Chester Fritz Fellowship Chinese Area Studies Chinese Language China Study Tour 1979-85 ("The Missing Years") Work in various ship's agencies in Seattle and Houston, and bumming around here and there on my motorcycle. 1985-87: J.D. University of Texas School of Law (Austin, Texas) Texas Law Review 1987-Present: Attorney; Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP (Houston, Texas) I'm a partner in my law firm. I'm a litigator, with primary areas of practice in the international commercial, maritime, tort, insurance and construction areas.

I've had a number of odd jobs (some of them very odd) from time to time over the years not covered by the outline above. Here's a partial list:

"Ranch hand" (cleaning stables, pitching hay, building fences) (a couple of times) Newspaper delivery truck helper Pizza cook Air conditioning coil assembler Draftsman Janitor

Railroad track crewman (clearing jungle in East Texas) Market research interviewer Library assistant (a couple of times) Newspaper mailroom insert stuffer Mental hospital "technician" (large guy in white coat a la One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) Law clerk

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." -- James Barrie (Scottish novelist, who wrote the play Peter Pan in 1904)

As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment. -- T.S. Eliot, East Coker