My name is Chris, & I live in Little Rock, AR.
I was born @ Sparks Hospital in Ft. Smith. I moved to Little Rock when I was a baby due to a job transfer for my father, who worked for the U.S. Corps of Engineers @ the time. I lived in "The Rock" until I was about 20 yrs old, when I moved to Van Buren for a few years.
I went to Meadowcliff Elementary School in southwest Little Rock from the 1st to the 4th grades, then went to private schools 'til the 12th grade 'cuz my 5th grade year was the year that the federal courts forced busing on all public school students across the country (all in the name of "desegregation" & "integration", of course).
The problem was that my house was only ONE HOUSE AWAY from my current school -- I walked through the Kanyuh family's yard, crossed Sheraton St., & I was @ school! But all of a sudden my family had to deal w/ my being bussed over to the rough / crime-ridden side of town a good 10 miles away in the Granite Mountain neighborhood.
YIKES!
That's when my parents decided that I should start going to a Christian school, & I went to Heritage Christian Schools from grades 5 - 9. I then went to Park Place Baptist Academy for the 10th & 11th grades, but that school closed, so I graduated from Bingham Road Baptist Academy in 1980....& check this out: my graduating class had only FOUR students, one of which was a junior taking both the 11th & 12th grades so she could graduate a year early!
I went to work for Waffle House right after graduation & worked for them for almost 5 & 1/2 years. Most of it was in North Little Rock, but I also worked in Van Buren & was the Manager of the store in 1983. Overall I worked in a total of 14 stores in central & northwestern Arkansas- - Waffle House was / still is (???) notorious for having problems w/ employees not showing up for work or quitting w/o leaving any kind of notice, so I was the one that they called to fill in for the no-shows.I then decided to go to college in 1986, where I went to the U of AR @ Monticello , where I 1st majored in Forestry (which required no minor) but later changed my major to Biology w/ a minor in Chemistry .
I consider myself to be a somewhat shy & mellow guy, one
who disdains violence of any sort: I don't even like to argue or raise my voice 'cuz I think that rational adults should discuss their problems in an honest, loving, & reasonable manner. Sounds simple, right?
Call me strange if you will, but I consider manners & showing respect towards others (especially women & the elderly) to be important, too: should a guy be called a nerd if he still says "Yes ma'am" to a lady, helps her down the stairs, or opens the car door for her...after all, that's the Southern way!
MY HEART IS IN LITTLE ROCK
& ALWAYS WILL BE!
The View of Downtown from the Air
Downtown from the Arkansas River
The Old State House
The Wonderful Pinnacle Mountain!
The Arkansas State Capital
The Little Rock City Flag
The Little Rock City Seal
Deep inside, I
am still an " '09er" (i.e., one who lives in the 72209
zip code, which covers southwest Little Rock):
This WAS my lovely house down in Little Rock
(on 9 Sheffield St., to be exact):
OMG!
Notice how the new owners have torn up the patio deck...
& now the front yard has turned to shit!
HOWEVER, I just bought a new house in the Meadowcliff neighborhood in southwest Little Rock....& it just so happens to be in the same neighborhood in which I was raised! Here is a pic of it from Google Streets:
I will eventually take some pics of my own before I move in & post them here in an album like I did w/ Buttons.
I AM SEARCHING FOR MY OLD COLLEGE BUDDIES from the University of Arkansas @ Monticello (from back in the late '80s to early '90s):
DR. JON & TRINA LINDSAY from Savannah, TN
The Heavy Metal Foresters!!!
DAVID POSEY from Dumas, AR
PHIL POSEY from Dumas, AR
PAT GLENNON from St. Louis, MO
ROBERT BAYNES from North Little Rock, AR
(or Wilmar, AR???)
"TINY" THOMASSON from Warren, AR
TISHA CRAIG from Monticello, AR (???)
DOUG SHELTON from Casscoe, AR
WENDY BASHAW from Bryant, AR
CHRIS GRICE from Bearden,AR
PETE CONWAY from Sherwood, AR (???)
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!
Buttons Slideshow #1
This is BEFORE he got his desperately-needed haircut (9-18-09)