Smittys Place

About me:

.. Father of four absolutely wonderful kids! ..I've got a beautiful wife who takes incredible care of me, two gorgeous, intelligent, fun loving daughters, and two of the craziest little guys that I get to call my sons! In a nutshell, life couldn't get much better .. .. I've been around the world, well half-way least, momma got knocked up with me in Sasebo, Japan then dad was transferred to the suburbs of Oakland, CA where I popped out, three months later we were enroute for Washington, DC where my mom got knocked up again (by my dad) and before birth we were shipped out to Holiloch, Scotland where ole Rick was born... .. Two or so years later we moved back to the states to Norfolk, VA and then to Virginia Beach, VA and then to Chesapeake, VA and a few years later we moved to Kingston, TN (talk about culture shock!!!).... .. Mom got remarried (into the Potter family (RIP Uncle Danny)) and we moved to Oak Ridge, TN where I went to High School. .. I decided to go to school at Kent State so I moved to Warren, OH and got into it with my step mom so back to OR I went, got bored and moved with my bud to Paducha, KY that sucked so back to OR!.. After four years of partying and making some life long friends I joined the Navy and went back to OR to get married, lived in/traveled to Orlando, FL; Meridian, MS; Buffalo, NY (which is where my two lovely daughters were born)Cheektowaga, NY; Newport, RI; Vicenza, Italy and live/traveled to: Venice, Rimini, Florence, Naples, Verona, Aviano, Brescia, Milan; as well as Munich, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Amsterdam... .. Got out of the Navy and moved to Warren, OH; Austintown, OH (had my two sons and married my beautiful wife on a lake shore in Panama City, FL) and back to Warren, OH then offered a promotion if I moved to Cincinnati, OH which I lived in Fort Mitchell, KY and we just moved to Ft Wright, KY. There ya have it, the nickel tour of my life, 30 places I called home in my 35 years...