A true Hillbilly in every sense of the word,   After Attending College at South West Baptist University, and South West Missouri State University,  'Turned
Artist, Stage Comedian, Black Belt Karate Instructor, University Professor, Writer, Musician, Craftsman, and Country Gentleman, has since traveled to the Orient a total of 13 times in the past  15 years.
Returned from the Orient on a final trip in 1998.  Now owner operator of small home based business, but still living on the homestead.
Mike has spent 30 years trying to achieve the status of Modern Renaissance
man.
Currently single,  but has 4 great kids, three are grown with kids of their own.
He is still living the simple life that he was raised on in the Ozark hills. The house he lives in was totally constructed by his own hands, and set in the center of 80 acres of wooded land 20 miles from any town, but within 25 minutes of the wilderness shore of the the Lake of the Ozarks.  (just for fun)  He is still an annual contender in the Tobacco Spiting contest,  and plays the fiddle at the yearly "Hillbilly Days Festival,"  held at Bennet Springs State Park in Missouri.
All the down home comforts of the farm are the everyday life for him.  Making a spring and a fall garden,  and hunting wild game, are not only fun, but a necessary way of life.
Caring for the usual farm animals, watching over cows, and building hand made, hard wood furniture in his small shop' are nearly a full time job these days.
After traveling to,  and living several years on the far side of the globe, there is only one thing to say.'  "There is no place like home."  down on the homestead.