November 2025 hails a landmark visit for posterity with the kiddos and many many a dear friend after a 25-year hiatus - destination - The Austin Texas!  Twas the dawn of the 80's - over 40 years ago - with the first visits including the early 6th Street scene (when it was cool), as well as hanging out at Barton Springs and indulging in the foodie scene in its infancy there and the surrounding Hill country. Then a techie with Hewlett Packard, the drive from Dallas on the then lonely Highway 281 was a joy.

A first visit to NYC during college included a trip to the WTC in 1977.  More on that later here.

Fast forward to the late 80s and 90s there were frequent trips, probably 20 or more, resulting from a newly minted entertainment career that sprung up in Dallas in 1986. In NYC the Dallas crazies connected the Apple with our pond in Dallas to help invent The Third Coast in Big D for music, art and fashionistas. Many contacts were made and enriched in early visits to New York before the era of email and cell phones via - banging on doors of record labels, talent agencies, promoters, magazines and other contacts in the old school way. Shoe Leather. Many high-level brilliant connections ensued and will be celebrated in NYC August 2025 as we gather again.

Back to the egg is one of the chapters in "None of The Answers" that rambles through an introspection involving DNA, ancestry and environment resulting in learning much about oneself. Everyone Must take that Trip!! And if you haven't do it Now!!.

I had mentioned as mantras the 3 A's in the book. AWARENESS, ACCEPTANCE AND ACTION. But initially forgot an equally important one! ADAPATABILITY!

I was fortunate to be part of a club and a localized scene back in the 80s that was so different in a Dallas,Texas world, and brought all the crazies there out of the woodwork as well as from around the globe.

Come on everybody let’s GeT reAL!!. Let’s set the phone, tablet or whatever electronic device DOWN NOW. (of course, after you read this...haha) Then take a deep breath. We all need to spend way less time with that stuff.