MISSING AND REMISSING...

It's been hard enough just to keep up with posting newsworthy nonsense here at the GLOG Spot, but I have been totally remiss in leaving out information about my beloved son Colin! A dear friend whom I haven't seen or talked to in years wrote to say she'd looked at the site, but wondered why I didn't mention Colin. She knew how close we always were, and that got my attention. So much to do, so little time...

Colin Douglas Lee was named after the actor Colin Clive, whom you film buffs will recognize as Henry Frankenstein from the first two "Frankenstein" films with Boris Karloff and directed by James Whale. Our Lee family is of English, Scottish and French ancestry, so it was only fitting that he receive a good Welsh name.

He was born in Houston, Texas on July 7, 1982, shortly after the release of my first record album, "Made To Be Played". He has proven the old Cajun superstition of many 7's associated with a person bringing good luck. He was born on the seventh hour of the seventh day of the seventh month. He weighed 7 pounds. There were seven people in the delivery room.

He has been blessed with extraordinarily good fortune, certainly aided by his brilliant mind, multiple talents and incredibly good looks. He's not only been a fine son in every way, but I consider him my best friend as well. Always wise beyond his years, Colin had some sage advice when I was -- well, there's just no delicate or tactful way to put this - a divorce from his mother after 24 years. My fault, I will admit. I told him I would like to have custody of him (he was about 11), he calmly pointed out that, "Dad, you don't look good on paper." Of course, he was right. When he was 12, he sternly admonished me to "act his age!", after some childish thing I said or did.

Actually, Colin has become his grandfather, my dad, Douglas D. Lee, who was a successful bank president, now deceased. When I listen to my son, if I close my eyes, I would swear my dad has come back. This of course, is a very good thing! He's probably the son my dad always wanted. Me, I am totally right brained, all creative, no sense. Colin is a brilliant combination of both.

He is the director of operations at Stubbs Cycles in Houston, and is married to a beautiful young woman named Kyle. They just moved into their second home, a palatial residence in the Sienna Plantation area southwest of Sugar Land, Texas.

I only hope I can make him as proud of me as I am of him!