Education

• University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX
• European Institute for Massage Therapy
• Houston Community College
• Ouachita Baptist University
• Ouachita Baptist University

Favorite saying

• "That's the nice thing about facts, they're still true, independent of anyone's approval. What's baffling to me is that they've been able to hoodwink as many people as they have, for as long as they have into thinking that they actually care about them. And by "them" I mean the middle-class. It's anyone's prerogative to vote as they see fit, but if you vote for Republicans and you're not part of the 1%, you're not voting in your own economic interest. And that's not true just because I said it, or Robert Reich said it, or Bill Moyers said it, it's true because it's a fact. -- Me I owe it as a scientist to my friend Leo Szilard, I owe it as a human being to the many members of my family who died here, to stand here as a survivor and a witness. We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power. We have to close the distance between the push-button order and the human act. We have to touch people.” ― Jacob Bronowski They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!” ― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain "It's a shame that in this society we've been taught to judge a man's worth by what he owns instead of who he is. Everything is surface, and so few look beyond it. A man will sell his soul, he will lie, cheat and steal, just for money. If he has money, he can buy respect. Wear the right clothes, drive the right car, have the right friends; that's all that matters. Our lives are consumed in a selfish, self absorbed quest for possessions, the latest and the best in a neverending cycle until the day we die. We forget what it means to be truly human. We forget the things that really matter. We lose the magic of what life should be." - Evan Tanner Joan Didion - Author, commencement speaker at Bard College. "What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with your self and your mantra and your fitness program or whatever it is that you might use to try to control the world by closing it out. I want to tell you to just live in the mess. Throw yourself out into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it, to look at it, to witness it. Try and get it. Take chances, make your own work, take pride in it. Seize the moment" "He drew a circle that shut me out, Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win, We drew a circle that took him in." --Edward Markam "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." -Marianne Williams “I really think it’s crazy that we hit our kids. Here’s the crazy part about it; kids are the only people in the world that you’re allowed to hit. Do you realize that? They’re the most vulnerable and the most destroyed by being hit but it’s totally OK to ...hit them. And they’re the only ones! If you hit a dog they will put you in jail for that sh*t. You can’t hit a person unless you can prove that they were trying to kill you. But a little tiny person with a head this big who trusts you implicitly… People want you to hit your kid.” Louis C.K. "The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won." He noted, "The rich are getting richer, which arguably wouldn't matter if the rising tide lifted all boats." Instead, however, "[t]he inequality gap is the widest it's been since 1929; the middle class is besieged and the working poor are barely keeping their heads above water." He added that as "the corporate and governing elites are helping themselves to the spoils of victory," access to political power has become "who gets what and who pays for it." Bill Moyers, 2003 To forgive is to make a conscious choice to release the person who has wounded us from the sentence of our judgment, however justified that judgment may be."