I was born in Beaumont in the early afternoon of 25 March, 1

I was born in Beaumont in the early afternoon of 25 March, 1946. I was delivered by Dr Bibee, I am told, but have no particular recollection of the event. I was not delivered in a hospital but in the Beaumont Infirmary. The joke at the time was that was for the infirm, the mentally unbalanced, the insane. So maybe that explains me a little bit.

From age 0 to age 18, Beaumont was home and theses stories will fill in some gaps

l left Beaumont in 1964 to attend Rice University. I spent the summer of ‘65 in Beaumont and then never lived there again. The parts of Beaumont where I grew up are now somewhat blighted and unattractive and that makes me somewhat sad.