Sometimes known as pi or a slice thereof, other times as “Hickey”, or “Is”, and often just plain Hicks.
Mr. Typical currently resides near Nashville by the shores of Old Hickory Lake in Hendersonville, TN, USA, Planet Earth, Multiverse, 37075. Tommy Boy shares a modified Tiki Hut with Melanie and free spirits, Maddie and Jordan. Hickey has written seven books including the Tommy Typical series. Professionally “Is” an entrepreneur, amateur actor, published poet, and national speaker and serves as a recycling consultant.
Tommy loves all mankind & promotes whenever possible Jefferson style libertarian ideals and Adam Smith free market capitalism with a passion for Aristotlean philosophy and is the self proclaimed Oracle of Possum Hollar.
“What the age needs is not a genius – it has had geniuses enough, but a martyr, who in order to teach men to obey would himself be obedient unto death. What the age needs is awakening. And therefore someday, not only my writings but my whole life, all the intriguing mystery of the machine will be studied and studied. I never forget how God helps me and it is therefore my last wish that everything may be to his honour.”
I was thinking about those inspiring words from Søren Kierkegaard’s Journal as I drove the rental car from LA to that little spot where I had spent a few glorious days one summer. I stopped the yellow convertible at a vantage point to watch the sun set over the blue Pacific. I heard panting and turned to see Baxter sitting in the seat next to me. He was long dead that Old English sheepdog of my young adulthood but here he was as big as life and as real as that sunset. I stroked him and his fur was as soft at it had been when he was a puppy, the runt of the litter, the loner with blue piercing eyes and at that moment I knew unmistakably that in the world of doubt there was more than enough legroom in my vehicle for faith to survive. So I write books..
“I owe everything to God. God is Love. God is Freedom,” remarked Pi recently while hanging out with his best friend Jesus and sipping a martini and enjoying an Arturo Fuente Hemingway in his favorite Tommy Bahama Tee shirt. Favorite Word- YES
Least Favorite Thing- Bullshit (unless for recreational purposes)
