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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Accounts Manager / Receptionist
Location	Texas, United States
Introduction	Welcome! I am a 6th generation Texan and proud resident of Williamson County where I graduated from Granger High School and Georgetown’s Southwestern University. I have a B.A. in World Religions from that institution and my Masters of Divinity I received from the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin. While I spent most of my career teaching high school and writing curriculum, I still have an abiding interest in the psychology of religion. I am fascinated by how our religious conditioning (or lack of) as adolescents impacts our cognitive development (including the spiritual beliefs we form in our minds as adults) and how these particular perspectives, unique to every individual, affect our life's journey. In my own journey today I'd be labeled Universalist / Unitarian. Other descriptors: Occasional Pollotarian / Regular Pescatarian; Bibliophile / Anglophile; Antiquarian / History Buff; Pragmatist / FreeThinker.
Interests	I enjoy cerebral movies (absolutely loathe romantic comedies); trying new restaurants; healthy cooking at home; reading mysteries or works examining history, politics or philosophy; and watching British TV mysteries (the quintessential Holmes played by Jeremy Brett, and Poirot played by David Suchet), historical pieces like Downton Abbey, All Creatures Great and Small, or examinations of the classic myth as found in sagas like Game of Thrones.
Favorite movies	Citizen Kane; African Queen; The Maltese Falcon; Casablanca; The Wizard of Oz; Gone With the Wind; The Godfather; 2001: A Space Odyssey; The White Ribbon; Rocky Horror Picture Show; A Star is Born; Dr. No; Skyfall; The Muppet Movie.
Favorite music	Old Country (Pride, Cash, Jones, and Waggoner; Cline, Lynn, Wynette, and Parton); Classical (Liszt, Chopin) & Opera (Wagner and Verdi); Streisand; Pet Shop Boys; Madonna (don't hate me), U2, The Killers.
Favorite books	Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life (R. Rohr); Moral Man and Immoral Society (R. Niebuhr); The Phenomenon of Man (Teilhard de Chardin); Omnipotence and other theological mistakes (Charles Hartshorne); Man's Search for Meaning (V. Frankl); Beyond Belief (and other works by Elaine Pagels); The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (A. Christie);