From the rodeos and cow pastures in Texas Hill Country to the skyscrapers of Houston working for security services and bail bondsmen while struggling to earn a degree as a diesel mechanic before shipping out to the Great Lakes in the Navy and getting beached again back home to work in EMS and going on through nearly every angle of First Responder service from Fire Fighting to Corrections Officer whenever he wasn’t bouncing in the back of ambulances on streets or pounding the floors in ER’s working in hospitals from Virginia to Texas again over the last twenty plus years and still going.

Reading stories from authors such as William W. Johnstone and David Robbins to name a few, was arguably the best lessons on being a man that a boy from a broken home in South West Texas could get. As he grew older and faced life challenges, he doesn’t know how lost he would be today had he not learned from fictional heroes how to stand up for what is right. Even when people he cared about were taking the other trail and the one he stayed on wasn’t nearly as popular.

Fantasy and sci-fi authors such as David Gemmel, Laurell Hamilton, Jim Butcher to name a few eventually caught his attention when reading westerns carried too many bittersweet memories.

Then he caught the attention of a Gun Rights company called Cold Dead Hands and fell in love with the writings of the Founding Fathers. From his studies on them and the shared beliefs he adopted, he chased after God until He found him.

One thing he has noted in recent years is a tendency to corrupt right and wrong. Whether books or movies, it isn’t anything to run into a story where bad can be felt good. Even satan can be the hero and usually angels are evil. And God… well if He isn’t the villain of popular fiction stories, He is absent or depicted as insane. And when the book is put down, and the final act is played on screen, people seem to have few positive influences trying to pierce through the darkness creeping over our country.