My story

Thanks for visiting my blog.  I hope you will find some useful and helpful information.

I was born the youngest of seven children. My parents moved to Bartlesville, Oklahoma when I was 9 and I graduated from Bartlesville College High School in 1973.  Then it was on to the University of Oklahoma for 7 years, ending with a law degree in 1980.

I practiced on my own for a short time, then joined the Stipe Law Firm in McAlester in 1981.  I have  been with that firm since then.  We opened an office in Tulsa in 1984 and I have been here ever since.

I married Brenda Michie of McAlester in 1983 and a  year later, we moved to Tulsa.  We live in mid-town Tulsa, in Swan Lake Neighborhood, an historic, charming place.  We recently celebrated the return of our swans, who have been absent from the lake for a few years.  Unfortunately, one of the swans did not adapt to the return to the lake and passed away.  We are looking for a new mate or a new pair of swans.  To learn more about our neighborhood, visit us on the web at http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/public/main.html?nneighid=349991996&nsupercity=563030875

We have two girls, Ronni and Maddi.  Ronni is a 2006 graduate Booker T. Washington High School. She is attending Hendrix College in Arkansas.  Maddi is a sophomore at Booker T. this year.