Dale McMillan grew up on a small farm near a small town in East Texas. After college he spent many years in the Houston, Texas area as a Laboratory Technician working in the Petro Chemical industry. He is now retired and has returned to a small farm near a small town where he writes about small town politics and social status as the wannabes, has-beens and are-nows, jockey for position on the social register. He is a member of the East Texas Storytellers Guild and the East Texas Antique Tractor and Engine Association