Charles Sullivan:  

Life Somehow life spun me around through college and the Air Force and deposited me in the computer industry and finally to a small farm in Texas. I got very lucky that when I landed all you needed was a little talent and a willingness to enslave yourself. I averaged a job change every 3 years and a move every 2 for 30 years. I always worked for leading edge companies that kept me challenged, well paid and well fed. I ended up on the sales end of the business. I moved myself and/or my family for significant periods of time through Chicago, St. Louis, New York, San Francisco, Ft. Lauderdale, Orange County (CA), Midland (TX) and wound up in and around Houston. The moves and the uncertainty along with a general lack of interest cost me my first marriage but we had 2 great kids. One is in Security in Central Florida and the other teaches Kindergarten in a suburb of Houston just an hour or so away from me. In 1989 I married the most wonderful woman I had ever met. Smart, funny, beautiful and the most steadfastly loyal person you could ever imagine. In 1998 the doctors found a congenital defect in my pancreas that had caused it to digest itself over the years. They took out 3/4 of it in 1999 and in 2001 I ended up on disability. Nancy has been my rock through all the pain and suffering. I have already lived too long to die young so I guess I had better get on with living with my disease. Nancy and I bought 41 acres in the Bluebonnet Country of South Central Texas and have started farming it. I can still work 3 hours or so per day. We raise a few head of cattle and some goats along with growing fruit and vegetables for ourselves and resale. We end up donating about h...Expand for more