Matt Davidson:  

I was more than happy to get out of Cradock. It was in many ways a sad place for me, but did have some happy moments especially doing plays with Pat Blake or in the band. I went to VA Tech in 1966 and graduated in 1970. Although Cradock Baptist Church was important to me, I went mainly to please my mother, Edith Evans who taught at James Hurst School. I "got religion" in 1969 in the turmoil of "well what are you going to do with your life" and decided to go to seminary. I was not sure how I would use my degree. If the Vietnam War was not winding down I probably would have become a military chaplain. I graduated in 1973 and became the pastor of a small rural church in Orange County, VA. Two more churches came along before I got "beat up and burn out" by one here in Richmond in 1983. I began working in the "real" world, taught computer classes for Radio Shack, sold cars, did sales training until I started what is now my business, "Logo Dynamics". Two best things what ever happened to me is meeting my wife, Linda,in 1970 when I worked for her church one summer. We have been married 44 years as of this December. Our son, Christian lives 20 minutes away with this wife, Misti and they have one son, Nathan, now 8 and Leah who is 3. All are a great source of joy for me. Nathan is tender hearted like me and Leah is a pistol like my sister, Patti who died in 1964 when I was 16. I also am thankful that I got a chance to start my own business. No mistake about it, it has not made me rich but given me a good return on my time spent and allowed me the freedom to be my own boss. I pity those people who go through life without the courage to step out on their own and become an entrepreneur. In reality, the only security you have in this world is what you make yourself. It really "bugs" me that the politicians and news people talk abo...Expand for more