This Website is about a man whose life did not go in a straight line.
It is a life of detours that became destinations,
Of mistakes that became teachers,
Of wreckage that became architecture.
…and you’re invited along for the ride!
Vanity? Vanity!
Run my life story past an AI and here’s what you get:
Born in 1957, caught between the boomers and Gen X, Some folks call us Generation Jones. This candid memoir traces my unexpectedly unusual life—from watching the chaos of the ’60s on a black-and-white TV to stumbling through decades of hard lessons, strong opinions, and enduring love. Honest, humorous, and self-aware, it’s a story about missteps, convictions, and the desire to be remembered. Impressive, right?
Now here’s my take on this website:
I have a unique opportunity to share with you a very distinctive history of the past sixty years. It’s my history. It’s a history you’ll hear nowhere else. It comes from the conjunction of a fanatical religious fervor mixed with a mountain of bad luck and scores of horrible decisions. Stir in a huge amount of curiosity, a thirst for reading translated into an unending attempt to record all I learned and what I think in a blaze of essays, stories and eventually books. Now it all comes from my fingers to your eyes, or my voice to your ears.
Over the next few months, maybe years, you’ll find a growing volume of writing, videos and brief vignettes showing the world of the past sixty years as I saw them. Take your time and come back often for I have a lot heading your way. Oh, and thanks!
My books
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Short Stories and Essays
Dusty Corners
Poetry, Buddhism and Random Me.
Me and the Joneses
“Generation Jones is a lesser-known micro-generation born roughly between 1954 and 1965, sitting between the Baby Boomers and Generation X. Unlike older Boomers who came of age during the optimism of the 1960s, Generation Jones grew up amid economic uncertainty, the Vietnam War aftermath, and the Watergate scandal, fostering a more skeptical and pragmatic outlook. The term “Jones” reflects both a sense of “keeping up with the Joneses” and a feeling of being left out of the earlier Boomers’ prosperity and cultural influence, giving this group a distinct identity shaped by transition, disillusionment, and adaptability.” That is the nut-shell version.
This website is dedicated to Gen Jones, or all us Joneses. It’s not just about me but about my friends, family, all of use who lived through the Gen Jones years and all that came after. Collectively our story provides many windows into life in lower-middle-class America in Texas. Enjoy!
What Else? Scroll down and find a few random annoyances to keep you busy while I collect more collections.
Is It Real or Is It Memorex?
Bullshit. Unadulterated!
Resistance Is Not Futile
Hell hath no fury like an unaccountable hospital.
The worst thing that ever happened to me occurred in 2020. I was sent to a hospital for a minor ailment and wound up there three and a half months. I was not sick, except I had a little bit of a head cold. Somebody did something and caused me to stop reading and it went downhill from there. This is my story.
Nothing like having your prayers never answered.
LISTEN to John Lennon… “imagine no religion.” It’s easy if you try.
* About fuck-ups and failures…
If you haven’t fucked up, have you really lived? In this raw and unflinching reflection, a self-proclaimed veteran of failures lays out a life stitched together by broken trust, hard lessons, and stubborn survival. Every mistake—big, small, repeated—becomes a scar worn like a badge of courage, proof of risks taken and dreams pursued. BACK DAYS invites readers on a gritty, honest hay-ride through decades of missteps and endurance, following the journey of a once-awkward outsider who refused to disappear. Laugh, wince, argue, and wonder—because in the end, survival may be the greatest triumph of all.
Work? I’m like my daddy…
I can sit and watch a man work all day long. But me? A working man? I did, once in a while. Find my old resume’ here. There are more documents, images, and stories to prove I worked once in a while. It’s about the working me!
Bits of Me in Video
I kind of take after a car my dad used to have. He had a Rambler. I ramble a lot. Some say I have a funny sense of humor. Some say I’m just weird. I think the latter comments probably closer to it. Either way, here’s a page of videos that’s growing by the week. If I can maintain the pace. It’s little bits and pieces of me on video. Check it out for your viewing pleasure. And yes, this page is redundant. I have placed many of the pages here on other pages where they apply. How’s that to confuse you?
You think I’m wacky now? Look back then.
In 2014 I got a burr under my ass. I grew my hair long and had a big beard. Over all that was a pretty wild time altogether, stories for another day. During that time I made a series of videos that I put on YouTube. They were political, dealing with the situation as it was then. It might be entertaining, enlightening, or just weird. Anyway, enjoy. I think they’re funny, anyway,
random stories IN VIDEO
Beginning
Happy Birthday to me
The Stand Pipe
Girls on Tiktok
Ribbit Ribbit.
Lufkin High School Football
Happy Birthday to my wife
My Favorite Female
What I’m Looking For