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.
But I always make myself
pretty easy to find.