Thin Slice of Life

Acknowledgements

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank the wives, relatives and friends who have gone on the journey with us as Thin Slice of Life took shape over the past twenty-four years. Mil gracias to esteemed authors Stephen Harrigan and Ben Rehder and acclaimed musician Marcia Ball for their forthright input and valuable suggestions. Special thanks to Rigsby Hull and Jeffery Bleazard (our man in Shanghai) for their inspired design of all things Miles. We gratefully acknowledge Stephen F. Austin University Press for their support and for the creative liberty they allowed us. Finally, we are beholden to the rounders and ramblers, the troublemakers, ne‘er-do-wells and raconteurs—and there are so damn many of ‘em on the Texas Gulf Coast—that inspired many of the characters in this book. – MILES ARCENEAUX ...