Lindsey Wilson College brought me to Columbia, Kentucky from Western Arkansas to teach mid to lower level math classes in August 1989. I decided to teach at the college level after determining that junior high students really ought to have a prison warden and/or a drill sergeant for a teacher.

Outside the classroom, I like to do things literally outside whenever possible...whether it be construction work, yard work, or riding my motorcycle. Merging skills learned in helping my granddad build houses and my dad do auto body work, high end custom cabinet building has become a side-line occupation for me...a trade that uses a lot of math.

My interests in the field of mathematics are strictly on the practical. Theoretical mathematics is a good thing...but not something in which I am interested. As for computations, I think a student ought to pride him- or herself in using a calculator and/or a computer as little as possible.