I have a lovely wife,
Carolyn , 
who is my strength
and who provides me with a firm foundation upon which
I have built my life. I have two brothers, Linwood
and Preston. They are both, for very different
reasons, my heroes and people I very much wish to be
more like. They are both brilliant. Their IQ's go
nearly off the scale. Their genius is in vastly
different areas, of course, making it difficult to
tell which is really the brightest. They are also
both crazy. I, of course, use crazy as a fun
euphemism for out of their damned mind crazy !
Their craziness is also in vastly different areas, of
course, making it difficult to tell which is really
the craziest. It also depends on the moon, I think.
Linwood does all the
computer stuff for the high school in Helena,
Arkansas. In the beginning, he put the entire school
on computer using an Apple II-E. Apple said it
couldn't be done. If you know what a II-E is you
would readily agree. It took a master mind to get it
done, but there was no money to buy a real computer 
at the time. By the way, Linwood has
been a teacher in the school district since 1970. In
addition to teaching history, geography, civics,
social studies, math and several other regular
courses, he created and taught classes in motorcycle
safety, photography, computers and offset printing.
Preston was never
academically inclined until later in life. How he is
so literate is something Linwood and I have puzzled
over for many years. Preston can fix anything in the
world (except horse races and presidential
elections.......well, horse races for sure). He has
installed, repaired and maintained ice plants which
supplied large fishing boats. He has been flown out
to sea and repaired freezer units on ocean ships. He
has repaired and maintained air conditioning systems
in hospitals and 30 story buildings. He also changed
my brake pads once for which I am still grateful.
Actually, the best thing Preston has going for him is
his wife, Cathy. I think when I revise this page,
I'll leave Preston out and talk about Cathy.