When I was 23 I bought my first business: a retail store called Wicks’n'Sticks in PrestonwoodTown Center in Dallas, Texas. It was a natural progression for me because my mom owned 5 stores in Missouri and Illinois and I started working in the stores when I turned 15.

Remember the movie, “The Blue Lagoon”? Oh man, I was so infatuated with Christopher Atkins after watching some of the risque scenes in the film. I was only 14 at the time, but come on, the hot boy was naked!
Back in the summer of 1980, I heard on the radio that there was going to [...]