Bill Dutcher is a fun-loving, risk-taking entrepeneur, seeking to balance his family life as a husband, father, and grandfather with his love of basketball, business, and writing.  The unconventional path he has taken since boyhood led to countless adventures along the way, including stints as a basketball walk-on and journalism major at the University of Oklahoma, four years in the Navy, with assignments in the Philippines and the Pentagon during the Vietnam war era, a newspaper reporter, public relations consultant and lobbyist. Later, he founded a natural gas consulting company, an oil and gas producing company, and a real estate company.