Paul Edward Hopkins

Went to UVa. Got a CPA. Got married. Moved to Atlanta. Got an MBA in Information Systems going nights. Moved from corporate finance to software consulting and sales. Raised a couple of great kids with Ellen Hamby.

Once or so a year. My father, born 1920, is still living in Woodbridge in a retirement community. My brother Brian is in Silver Spring raising a family and he works for WJLA.

I write songs and play guitar, solo and in a band.

Frank Wickes and the symphonic band. Scoring a full band piece in his music theory class and going to Europe to play in the competition in Vienna. (I hated the marching Part).
Paul Levy and the slide shows of his trips to Russia, and how he somehow tied philosophers like Locke and Rousseau to the American Civil War. Having a planetarium in a HS?
Mr. Barr sneaking up behind with rubber soled shoes you couldn't hear. The shop teacher (Mr. Moody?) with the class ring he would knock on your head. Paul Henzy and Blue Sun. Tim Valdez and Scotty Bistline playing great bluegrass.