Dell Deaton — Personal Home Page

Most of the websites I've developed have been for professional and community service resource organization. But something was missing.

Rather, "everything" was missing.

I needed a place where all of my interests could come together, overlapping here and there; in a few cases, sitting off on the fringes while remaining a vital part of things. Freud said life is love and work. This is where I've put both, and tried to integrate them.

If that's of interest to you.

This isn't the first page you've hit on my site, I'm guessing. More likely, you were searching for information on a topic we share in common. Business information or resources I've organized. Parenting. My fascination with the James Bond films and his Omega watches. Spiritual discussions. The commitments I've made to stay organized thanks to my Treo 650, and the commitments I've made to exercise thanks to my bike and kayak.

Maybe it was the small piece I've provided of the quote collection I've amassed over the years — liberally indulged with commentary from yours truly (heck, anyone could dump pages of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations on the Internet and call it good, but, "What's the fun in that?" I ask you, paraphrasing Dr. Alan Grant).

Psychology and managing organizational, relationship dynamics may appear to pop up every so often stand-alone. But I'd be lying to you if I said I wasn't firmly convinced that they permeate every bit of life. As well as this website.

To all of you, then: Welcome! Whatever the tangent, I'm glad it brought you here.

And if you find yourself curious about some of the other things that lead folks in (further stuff that makes up my life), you may want to take a gander at the navigation bar below or head straight for the Contents page.

There isn't any "About Me" page, per se. To be frank with you, it seems a bit out of place on a site with my name for the URL. Depending on what you're looking into, I do share in each section lead the take I'm bringing to it. Beyond that, I guess I feel like such things too easily digress into self-indulgent narcissism.

Or maybe I have a self-esteem problem. I've worked in communications and professional marketing since 1983, and I could put you and whatever you're promoting in national headlines if you'd like. But I prefer kidney stones are to writing a Dell Deaton résumé.

However — here's the important stuff I will add in summary to the above. After over a quarter-decade Ann Arbor, my home is now in Saline, Michigan. I live in the city with my son, who was born in 1998, and attends school here, and my wife and best friend, Janet. We have two dogs: Brody, who is a Corgi-Lab mix (a Humane Society rescue at the age of three), Timber, a thoroughbred Samoyed. Our cat, OJ, rounds out the household.

Beyond that, my biography depends on what I'm doing at the moment.