My name is Joe DeShon and Macon, Missouri is my home town.

If you went to high school in Macon in the late 1960s or early 1970s, yeah, I'm that Joe DeShon.

I wasn't born in Macon. We moved there right after I completed the first grade. But that's where I grew up, that's where my childhood memories are from, and that's where my hometown is.

Right after high school, I left town to seek fame and fortune. Except for a few trips to visit my mother — who still lives in Macon — I never came back.

What about the fame and fortune that I left home for? Did I ever find them? Well, I didn't really find fortune, but I am pretty comfortable. As for fame... hey, I have my own web site. Do you?

I live in the Kansas City area now, working for a really, really big telecommunications company that is based here. (Yeah, that company.)

If you'd like to find out more about me, you can take at peek at my daily blog at "The Mind of Joe".

Thanks for letting me share my postcard collection — and my memories of Macon — with you.