the impossible, and reaching out after the long forgotten. I was born in Lansing, MI, in
1980. My parents moved to Arizona (they took me along too) round about my first
birthday. I have been here ever since.
In 1999 I met the woman I would later marry (The artist formerly known as Miss Suzie
Lee), while attending Arizona State University. We didn't date, and apart from me
loaning her a book, we really had very little interaction until about 2001 when I asked her
to coffee, and we talked for three hours straight at Starbucks. Subsequently we became
very good friends, until I decided I had had enough of friendship and asked her to marry
me.
Suzie became pregnant. John Isaac Backus was
born April 1, 2004. It has been an amazing
experience becoming not just an husband, but also
a father. I still strive to improve, but I have this
feeling that I will never be quite perfect, nor will I
ever be quite through with being a father until I step
foot in the grave.
John Isaac is the most patient man I have ever met.
that I am moody, angry, or any of the usual things that
makes for a rather unbearable experience. I am just a bit
different. From how I live my life in the day to day, to
picking jobs. I believe that you must first become on the
inside, what you wish to be on the outside.
I can be dead honest at times, which believe it or not, in a
world of people "seeking the truth", few of them have ever
seemed very excited when I honestly informed them of
how I was doing today. I guess it is just one of those
questions we politely ask, and in return the other person
is supposed to politely lie to us about how pleasant they
are today.
come by it honestly. My father has been an amazing
business for as long as I can remember. I still
sometimes find myself amazed when I get the
opportunity to watch him work. His customers LOVE
him. And he managed to make a profit at the same
time. If that is what sales is all about, I think it doesn't
sound so bad after all.
