David G. Sikes, Ph.D.

My favorite song speaks volumes

"I've had the time of my life"

Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - "Dirty Dancing"

One thing about starting life at the bottom of the rung is most of your view is upward. Much of my early memories have fragmented with time, but to say my part of the Sikes Clan began with an austere life style would be a major understatement. My peers lived in much the same environment hence none of us felt sorry for ourselves. Self reliance remains for me a strong virtue.

Grovenor, Texas, is a small town, known by very few people. Big cities within a hundred miles included Brownwood, Coleman, and Abilene, but they too are little known. At one time I was told the town was named after Grovenor Square in England. Mrs. Kaiser, and Mrs. Bell, our only two teachers did not known who named it, or why, but I asked often. Fond memories include trips to Brownwood Lake, fishing along several small rivers, roaming the country side with my buddies, and at age seven finding Patricia Cosper enchanting, but being to shy to tell her. My shyness has long gone and when a beautiful woman walks into my presence it is very common for me to thank her for her beauty.

Abilene, Texas, became my town between age eleven and The US Army. The black and gold of the Abilene Eagles continued to be my colors in the Army, and later the colors of Glenwood Hills Realty, LLC, in Albuquerque, NM., almost forty years later. I have never been one to change from a winning tradition.

My professional career began at a very early age (6) and included working in grocery stores, janitorial, insurance sales, soldier, police officer, forensic psychologist, investor, and real estate agent/qualify broker/owner of several businesses. January 1, 2004, I vowed to reduce my work days from 7 to 6 days a week, and repeated the reduction January 1, 2005, when I went from 6 to 5 weekdays. In September of 2008, I sold my last company holdings, and began the long process of retiring. By the summer of 2009 I had finally figured it out and retired. From working at chores, etc., about age 6, almost sixty years later the truth hit me. No matter how much one works, they, or the.government will figure out how to spend it. In the end all you have is what you started off with. Yourself! Thank goodness I had learned to live with myself. I retired happy!

My Personal Life has had it's share of wonderful moments, failed relationships, and terrible disappointments. Loved ones remain a wonderful part of my life, and yet I will forever mourn those who have passed to the other world. Death wills it's way into all of our lives and leaves an abyss often to wide to imagine there is a means to cross. My chosen profession for decades, Special Agent and later Investigator within the civilian law enforcement community, exposed me to hundreds of deaths, and has forever changed my view of my world. Do not ask me to take life seriously, I have spent hundreds of hours with the dead. I won't, and feel sorry for those who have yet to learn! Life is too brief, and I will forever seek enjoyment in the moments I have left. If you ask otherwise, you are obviously speaking to someone else.

This brings me to the present. My career consist of doing what I want, when I want, and loving every moment of it. Recently, I met the most wonderful woman in the world and plan on spending the rest of my life with her. I love to dance (holding my beautiful Helen at any time, including dancing, always take my breath away), hike, boat, visit with my son and grandchildren (also my best male friends), ski, golf, travel, and most anything that takes me outdoors. I have a staff of wonderful young people who allow me to disappear for periods of time as those of us in their golden years are ought to do.

Cool Breezes & Sweet Dreams

JJ - aka - Dave Sikes