HEY. I’M KEVIN.
author; memoirist; humorist; wannabe poet, playwright, musician, and composer; believer in miracles; dodger of bullets; lover of all things old-school; collector of vinyl; oldies music enthusiast/historian…
and every day of life for me is a postscript.

After a wonderful childhood in the small rural town of Baldwyn MS and amazing teen years in Fullerton CA, I graduated from Troy High School there and began my university studies, taking degrees in psychology from Brigham Young University and the University of Utah  (with a two-year break from 1971-73 to serve as a missionary in Southern Germany for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). I’m now retired from a satisfying professional career of more than forty years as psychologist, child and adolescent behavior consultant, public school administrator, and executive director of a not-for-profit family services agency. I’m married to the former Dianne Raddatz, and we make our home in Utah. We’re the proud parents of three and grandparents of nine.

Being a great fan of remembering, I write much about the past, about memories. But I do it with humor. I refer fondly and agreeably to these words of Jimmy Fallon: “Making people laugh is something I learned from my father who always said, ‘There’s nothing so painful in life that couldn’t be laughed at—eventually.’” While this may not be true 100% of the time, I find it to be true often enough to persuade me to use humor.

I’ve collected vinyl records since before my teenage years (if you do the math, you’ll find yourself clear back in the 50s with me). I’ve got thousands of LPs and 45s (I’ve never made a full and accurate count), along with an only slightly lesser number of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays. I occasionally sell LPs on eBay.

My first book, Strangely Normal, brought a piece of unexpected good fortune my way: acquaintance and then friendship with Gary Puckett, vocalist and musician extraordinaire, whom I’d admired since 1967, when I first heard him and the Union Gap (“Woman, Woman,” “Youong Girl,” “Lady Willpower,”). That friendship, in turn, brought more unexpected fortune: a writing opportunity with the iconic, ground-floor rock & roller, Joey Dee, whose music I’d known and loved since his number-one 1962 chart hit with the Starliters, “Peppermint Twist.”  From the co-writing of his book came a close, treasured friendship with him and his family, along with the highly sought-after status of Official Honorary Jersey Boy.

To sum me up, I had a Mississippi childhood, a Southern California teenage, and a Utah adulthood—and I’m an official honorary Jersey Boy.

The upshot of it all?

I’m socially eclectic, and I’m a dangerous man.

I hope you enjoy my piddlin’ little ol’ website. And my books . . .