"What have you been up to?" is a question I hear from friends and family I haven't spoken with in a while. This is my response...

My wife and I have been together for a little more than five years. We've had two kids together, giving us six in all. Our children are ages 16, 14, 12, 9, 2 and 1.

I recently went on a diet and I'm down to 167 pounds. It’s something I wanted to do for a long time, but finally started in earnest after a summer visit to the emergency room. I have a severe case of gastroesophageal reflux, and being overweight wasn't helping things!

I'm in my sixth year of teaching Special Education. I'm still in radio, but only on weekends, and only because I've been there so long that the staff have become family. That, and because I've been in for radio so long that I can't imagine not doing it.

This spring, I'll take my last two classes toward my Master's Degree, and hopefully that will lead to better pay. If not, I'll die owing Uncle Sam for my student loans! Seven years at a private university was anything but free.

With my jobs, the kids, my wife, and my Master's classes, I don't have time for music, so my songwriting and recording have been put on the back burner. And it's been turned to “low simmer”. I was recording an album and the producer lost everything, so we'd be starting from scratch; otherwise, I would have finished a few songs this past summer. Now, I don't know that I ever will record a single song.

Photography has also taken a backseat in my crazy life. Don't get me wrong, I still take hundreds of pictures every single month, but they're of our kids, not of models, actors, high school seniors, or weddings.