My latest Hawaiian Christmas, Atop Diamond Head, O'ahu, December 23, 2012
My 60th Birthday Photo, also at Kapi'olani Park, July, 2010
Winter in Hawai'i: Christmas, 2010, at Ka'ena Point, O'ahu
This picture was taken on July 1,2011 - my 61st birthday, in San Diego, California.
This picture was taken Dec. 1, 2001, in front of a poster at the Hong Kong Museum of History.
My 50th birthday picture: taken in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July, 2000, from the observation deck at the Kuala Lumpur Tower, looking out about a mile to the Petronas Towers, which at that time were the world's tallest buildings (if you counted the uninhabited spires on top.)
That's me on Sentosa Island, Singapore, in April 1998 with Merlion, Singapore's National Symbol, and at the Colisseum in Rome in February 1999.
The top running photo is me in October 2000, not quite half way into the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C. I finished the race, my eighth (and last!) full marathon, and my fifth on the course in Washington. The shirtless runs were on far too hot days near the finish of the Trinity Hospital Hill half marathon, Kansas City, Mo., in June, 1996 and 1997.
A long time ago: Me on the Occidental Life Insurance Co. of California float in the Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, Jan. 2, 1978
Among my favorite trips to Major League Baseball parks were SBC (at&t) Park in San Francisco, top, in 2007, and the new Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, N.Y., in 2009.
I tried driving that camel while stopping in Giza, Egypt, on a round-the-world trip for my 40th birthday. The bungee jump was in Orlando, Fla., and the skydive was at the Oz Sport Parachute Club in Lyons, Kan.
I am Keith Murray and I live in Wichita, Kansas, USA.
A native of Pasadena, Calif., I have lived in
Wichita since 1978. I enjoy personal fitness, biking,
surfing the Internet, and world travel. I have visited all 50 U.S. states, all six (subarctic) continents, and all 30 active Major League Baseball parks in the United States and Canada.
Among things I've done in life that I care to
admit are graduating from Claremont McKenna College in
California in 1972, magna cum laude in political science,
and Wichita State University in Kansas in 1996, summa cum
laude in Spanish. I've also attended the University of
California's Davis School of Law and been in the U.S.
Army Reserve.
I worked with Knight Ridder newspapers (The
Pasadena Star-News and The Wichita Eagle and Beacon) for 22 years,
taking what amounted to early retirement in 1993 and
returning to school to study Spanish in early 1994. From
1987 until 1993 I was vice president and general manager
of The Eagle.
I worked with Big Brothers and Sisters of
Sedgwick County (Kansas) for nine years. I was a board
member, and from 1992 to 1993, board president.
I follow Major League Baseball. My interest started as a boy with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and continued after I moved to Kansas with the Kansas City Royals. Then, in the past decade, I resolved to get to all active MLB parks - and, in 2009, accomplished that goal.
While I have traveled all over the world, I think my favorite destination is Hawai'i, where I try to spend every Christmas.
In 2006, I learned personal income tax preparation and since January, 2007, I have prepared hundreds of personal returns for clients of Bullins Tax Service in West Wichita. I returned there again for the 2012 tax season, but this time as trainer and associate.
I've run eight full marathons (26.2 miles), the fastest time being 3:36:09 in the Marine Corps Marathon in 1992. My most recent marathon was on that course in 2000 (4:12:48). I've also run a bunch of half marathons and shorter races. After giving up the distance running, I have become a fairly active -- though not fast or competitive -- outdoor bicyclist in Wichita. Also, as you can see, I've tried my luck in bungee jumping and skydiving. I'm still here!
For more about the Marine Corps Marathon, click here.
For more about Wichita State University, click here.
For more about Claremont McKenna College, click here.
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