Tom Devaney:  

Life The “short version” is as follows: I am in beautiful Ludington, MI...just outside of town, surrounded by woods with my wife, 2 young boys, (11 and 13) and assorted pets. I mostly work at home via the Net and still get together with buds & “kick out the jams” once every week or so doing classic & current rock at 120 decibels in my garage..that’s never had a car in it..just amps, guitars, drums, keyboards, theatrical lighting..waiting for the “next cause” or party! I was born in Highland Park, Michigan. I started kindergarten at “Mason Elementary School”. During the 4 years I was there, we lived in one of the *last* farm houses in the Detroit city limits at the corner of Plymouth and Telegraph roads. my parents told me that the house was about 125 years old. When we moved, they tore it down and built a high school in its place. Names like: Chuck Safilian, Pam Zang, Michael Baladski, Serge LaPointe, Kristen Takayama, Brian Martin, and Johnny Weeks come to mind for various reasons and I wonder if any of them...remember. Leaving there as the 4th grade started, we moved to Warren, Michigan in a *brand new* house in a place called “The Cigarette Sub”...comprised mostly of streets named after cigarettes (cough..what were they thinking???) I started 4th grade at “Warner Elementary School”. Our area was growing so rapidly we were now called “The CITY of Sterling Heights”. Because “Warner Elementary” was *TOO CROWDED*, 5th grade was spent at “County Line Elementary School"(Where were you when Kennedy was shot?). But..it’s TOO CROWDED here, too! “Warner Elementary” was expanded, so we spent 6th grade back over there. 7th grade was in “Fuhrmann Junior High” (do you remember your “first love”?) where I went to my first “dance”. Guess what, it’s TOO CROWEDED here. Oh-oh..looks like they might have time to *make some friends*!!!...gotta MOVE the “Cigarette-Sub-Kidz”..AGAIN. Only this time..let’s REALLY move ‘em!! We’ll put them in..uh..I got it!..some p...Expand for more