Draft board sends me a letter

After weighing 250 pounds in high school, I slimmed down to 195 pounds in 1967 by eating just one McDonald's hamburger each day for a year. (Not recommended unless you are twenty.)

The very next year, the draft board sent me a letter.

I enlisted in the Navy to avoid Vietnam and got stationed in Kingsville, Texas where the Navy taught me to write for publication.

Built my own radio station 1962

1962 I built an AM radio transmitter and created a control room in my bedroom. 

With a reel-to-reel tape recorder and vinyl albums, I did shows as a disc jockey. 

I wanted to be a radio announcer, so I broadcast for an hour each night.

Sure enough, after graduation from high school I began a 34-year radio career.

22 to 29 feelings published in 2016

After writing folk-rock songs for about five years in the late Sixties, I attempted poetry from age 22 to 29. 

I was too restless to keep a journal and was scared to try a book, so I bought a stenographer’s notebook and started writing down my feelings. 

Finally, in 2016, I self-published the free verse in a book called Quietly I Reply.

whistling 1940s dead guy in INSIDIOUS

2010 On the film, Insidious. using airbrushes, and special material, it took 3 hours of makeup to transform me into a 1940s whistling dead guy. 

My 2-minute scene with star Patrick Wilson made the final cut of the film.

See it here: https://tinyurl.com/CrewsInsidiousClip

Dee and Dale married 1957

Navy guy Dale Crews met my mom, and they became managers of the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Lakeland, FL. 

Hoping to create a family to include me, my mother and Dale got married at one minute past midnight on New Year's Eve 1957.