Growing up in a South Texas rural town comes with many perks and as well as disadvantages. One perk is the quiet openness of living outside a major city. The city being forty-five minutes away; there are no bright lights, police sirens, or even ambulances whizzing by at all hours of the day or night. If you happened to get pulled over, the police officer would dial up your parent’s phone number leaving you a ticket and an unpleasant conversation at home. In fact, we only had the one blinking stop light in the entire town! Nothing, but just the one. What did we do for fun you ask? It was all about the football games. The town revolved around our sports teams, but not me. My life was the band. Since there wasn’t much to do in this small-town
