Way Corp group(s) I was in
8th Way Corps
Where I live
Near Raleigh NC
Married or Single
Married
About Me
I am living in North Carolina after having lived in California for about 20 years. I am fortunate to still have Lyn Neal Morrison (11th) as my wife. She is sexy, beautiful, and a great believer. I have two great sons, Nick 20 and Mike 15.
My Interests
Besides trying to diligently seek God on a daily basis (I'm not trying to sound "religiously correct" here, it's just that I have found that I'm either seeking or drifting away. Since drifting away doesn't offer me much, I am trying to seek). I also am into mountain biking, a sport I just picked up in the last year (because my knees are funky). Mountain biking is an adrenaline rush. We went to the Blue Ridge Mountains three times this summer to let me race down. I only planted my face on the trail once!!!
Employment or Career
UPDATE: I presently work for the FDIC - the people who insure the banks - in an elite section called the Professional Liability Group and Financial Crimes. When a bank is closed, we go in with investigators and determine if the bank's failure was due to the negligence or fraud of the directors,officers, accountants or attorneys and if so, sue to recover the losses from the individual or their insurance. When you read about a bank failure on Saturday morning, we went in Friday night to take over the bank and get it ready to reopen by Monday morning so that depositors can get their money. We are the reason that there are not runs on the banks. We are the financial "EMTs" rushing to the scene of a badly injured bank in order to stop the injury from spreading to every other bank. It is exciting and intellectually challenging and I believe what I am doing helps keep the American economic system afloat. It is a federal agency, but it is the only one that is totally supported by no tax money.
BACKGROUND: I had a law firm in California. Early on, Bryce Shirley and I were partners, then he moved on to work for Pepsi. Later I partnered with a great believer from Puerto Rico named Manfredo Lespier (he also plays a judge on the Spanish language TV show Divorcio Court or something). I then became Chief Legal Officer for Peter Coad's company TogetherSoft located in NC. That professionally was the best time in my career. Pete is absolutely brilliant and I got to work with many great people including Judy Coad (my officemate), Randall Michek, Frank Baker, Art Poling, Gary King , Don MacMillan and others. The company was bought out in 2003 and then I became president for a time of Dale Cain's software company. I then sued NC for the right to practice law here, and the case went to the US Supreme Court. I now practice law in Raleigh doing injury cases, class action construction defect cases, and more. I also have a realtors license.
Music I Like
UPDATED: I really like country music best now: Zac Brown, Taylor Swift, Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, etc. I can see where Dr. Wierwille was trying to go with High Country Caravan.
Classic Rock (Zeplin, Lynard Skynard), Blues, and now Country Rock (Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Willie, etc)
Books I Like
Freakonomics, detective novels, etc., but I don't like John Grisham novels about attorneys because they are SO implausible.
Television I like
Earl (reminds me of people I knew in Indiana), 2 & 1/2 Men (reminds me of people I knew in California)
Movies I like
Comedies, and some action stuff, but the last Die Hard was overboard. Come on, Bruce Willlis wrestles a jet after jumping off his moving semi-trailer
Sports Teams I like
College Sports. This place is college crazy with Duke, Carolina, Wake Forest, ECU, NC State. The pros are too polished. The kids can win any game on any particular week.
Comments
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Sue sends her regards (We are listed here together, but Sue has never logged on to this site. She is not a computer person.)
Not much to tell about us really. Our only kid, Rex, is leaving for basic training in the Air Force on July 21. He has his own apartment now, but it is close by. We are not looking forward to the nest being completely empty.
After you have had time to somewhat digest my blog posts, I'd like to know what you think.
Thanks again for your kind note.
Bless.
Ken
Terry's kids call him Papa Ter-Ter. I can just see it.
Leslee and I talked right after her divorce at a Rock in 1990 or so. I don't remember details except that they had 3 or 4 boys and Dick was, supposedly, a real asshole. One sided divorce tales are often exaggerated. I guess Ducky lives in Canada. I can't imagine him ever becoming an a-hole, either. He taught me so much Word of God as I was growing up in the Word. He'd sit in the car after fellowship and read Romans to me, then Ephesians. He was a great undershepherder.
DeMorto lives in Paris!!! I can just see the little frog now...
What about Rich and Patty? I know they split up when the ministry went wacky, but don't know if Patty is still at HQ or not. I heard Rich was back in CHicago area.
I ran into Leslie Jacobs at the 2007 Advanced Class Special at HQ. She and Dick have been divorced for years. She looked EXACTLY the same as when she was 20; same big smile that lights up the room. She lives in Canada, works for Home Depot, and somewhere at home I have her email address. If I find it, I'll forward it to you.
Terry and Cheryl are in Toledo. They have grandkids, and had 3 kids, I believe. He's a practicing gynecologist (Smegma patrol...gives the three finger discount, I hear...) and they run a fellowship. His email address is: gibbs1086@buckeye-express.com and he'd love to hear from you.
The person I've lost is Bill Morton. I have even done a google search for harpsichord makers, to no avail. Ever hear of/from him? Last time I saw him was in Ft Wayne at a July 4th fireworks display a million years ago.
I like being back in touch with you. Like I said, you were always one of my faves. And yes, I'm still a Dead head.
My mother always wanted me to marry you! You must have made some impression on her and Ray! Do you remember having dinner with them at our apt in lansing? That was the summer that you lived in Elkhart or somewhere near there, right? Anyway, Mom died a couple of years ago at a ripe old age of 88.
And what about Debbie Ingram? How is your sister?
Love youse,
me