Some formative life experiences...
Age 2: miraculously unharmed when a drunk driver crashed through the wall of my parents bedroom and buried me in a pile of rubble.
Age 4: asked Jesus to come into my heart.
Age 9: moved to Friendswood, TX - a town founded by Quakers in 1895.
Age 14: got cast in a play at my high school.
Age 15: saw Kenneth Branagh's Henry V.
Age 16: heard The Beatles' "Hey Jude."
Age 18: attended McLennan Community College as a Theatre major.
Age 18-20: ignorantly lived in sin. Future looked promising.
Age 20-21: willfully and knowingly lived in sin. The promising future became a bleak present.
Age 21: went back to God.
read "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis.
Age 22: apprenticed at the Berkshire Theatre Festival.
Age 23: reluctantly agreed to run a youth drama program at a local church - began writing and directing Christian-themed stories.
Age 25: married my best friend.
Age 26: decided to write and direct a short christian-themed film called, "Washington's Cross."
Age 27: became the father to the first of three bright, beautiful children -all named after Beatles' songs.
Age 28-30: "The Oath of Desormeau" - still difficult to assess the tremendous benefits it brought and damages it wrought.
Age 31: moved to Louisville to write and direct for City on a Hill Productions.
spent four days filming this in Appalachia.
Age 33: went through a severe dark night of the soul that still has occasional after shocks.
Ecclesiastes became my favorite Old Testament book.
decided that, in the absence of conclusive proof, I will not believe and live like the universe was an accident and that life has no meaning.
