I am retired from the Navy with a 100% service connected disability. I am an above the knee amputee, have lost the use of my right arm, have double vision, and moderate brain damage that is unnoticeable by me. My wife, however, claims she can detect it. I am ecstatically happy most of the time. You don’t have to be healthy to be happy.

What you have to be is grateful.

I lived in Mexico for seven years, where I met and married my wonderful wife. I own two modest homes there: a five bedroom, two bath (wait your turn) home in Tampico, Tamaulipas, and a two room cabin with an outhouse in the jungles of San Luis Potosi. My wife owns a small sugar cane farm there, down the road from the cabin. From our cabin, we walk past one house to get to the river, and one of the best swimming holes in the world.

We currently live in Luling, Texas, about an hour east of San Antonio, where we have thirty-four rose bushes... it takes a lot of manure to grow roses.

By the grace of God, I have been clean and sober for thirty-four years.