Tim's Big Day!

 

by Pa Rock

Proud Papa

My youngest son, Tim Macy, was born forty-three years ago today in the small Missouri town of Mountain View, a community that has neither a mountain nor a view of one.  Our family left Mountain View when Tim was three, and he grew up primarily in the southwest Missouri communities of Noel and Neosho.  Tim never completed high school, but he did earn a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Kansas where he developed an interest in playwriting and went on to stage several of his works at the university - and his proud father attended multiple performances of every production!  

Tim's father was also at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, when a contest play that Tim wrote was presented as a finalist in a national competition, and at the Las Vegas Film Festival a few years later where a short film based on a story written by Tim was presented, and even at the Toronto Film Festival in 2012 when the first feature length film that Tim wrote, "The Brass Teapot," premiered.

But the ego trip for Tim's puffed-up father still was not over.  In 2015, the young screenwriter brought his family to West Plains, Missouri, for a summer visit with Pa Rock while his second feature film, "Lost Child," was being filmed locally, and then the following year Tim's old man was in Indianapolis when that film premiered at the Heartland Film Festival.

But all of that successful writing is just one aspect of who Tim really is.    He is also the lucky husband of Erin, one of the best people of the planet, and the active and involved father of Olive, age ten, and Sully, age six.    This past weekend while I was visiting in their home I watched Tim teaching Olive to play chess - and she is already quite proficient at the game - and Erin and Tim teaching Sully how to sound out words as he was learning to read.  They are a very busy and happy family!

Today Tim has a job with a national grocery chain that provides a good income and family health insurance, he operates a retail and shipping business out of the house, he manages a busy family life, and he still finds time to write every day - and just thinking about all of that exhausts his old dad!

Happy birthday, Tim.  May good things always come your way, and may you continue to recognize and appreciate them when they do.