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Husband, dad, brother, son, alpha dog, alpha cat, alpha beta fish • Word Nerd • Most comfortable in jeans and a sportscoat • Wing nut (Red Wings fan), lug nut (Nascar fan), nature nut, beer nut, book nut, car nut, but mostly just a nut • Writer, editor, reader, worker, player, dog walker, learner, jokster and theologian on the side • A music fan with absolutely no musical ability • Last man standing in my household • Sawer, sander, nailer, patcher, caulker, screwer, taper, holder-together-er of an old house • One lonely tattoo • Way too busy to get everything done I want to get done • Firm follower of the philosophy: "Eat right, get lots of sleep, drink plenty of fluids, go like hell." • Fan of travel; bigger fan of coming home • Beth and two girls. There's a lot of hormones flying around the house. Pray for me • I run in the mornings, before the sun comes up, when it's cool, a sense of optimism permeates the air and no one can see me panting for just one more blessed molecule of oxygen. • Nascar then hockey, Bob Seger then Steve Winwood, Mark Twain then it’s wide open • Casablanca, Paul Newman, Northern Exposure • Polo shirts in the summer, crew-neck sweaters in the winter, long-sleeved T-shirts any other time • Jackson Hole, Wyoming • Chocolate-covered strawberries, banana pancakes, pineapple pizza • A four-door Toyota Tacoma pickup. Because I have a very old house, and I spend a third of my life and half my money at Lowe’s. • First Watch for breakfast, Cobblestone Cafe for lunch, Longhorn Steakhouse for dinner • Guinness Blonde Lager, ice cream, anything and everything chocolate • Frequently rushed, often confused, definitely blessed, hopelessly unhip, annoyingly neat, rarely late, lightly starched, usually tired.