According to one internet site, my criminal record is researchable. That's D. Paz Dalton's criminal record, of course, and I find that amusing because I don't exist in real life. I'm a voice, a pseudonmyn, a pen name used by Philip Matin Cawlfield to write stories about the borderlands between Texas and Mexico. I'm about 6 years old. He first used me to blog on Moli, and that was back about 2007 or thereabouts. D. Paz Dalton is the pen name used to write Redrocks Chronicles: Stories from the Borderlands. But I have a criminal record that's researchable?
Philip Martin Cawlfield was my father's given name, but he changed his name later in life to Basil Philip Martin. You can find him on the internet too under Dr. B. Philip Martin, which is a burial notice when he passed away. And you can find his father, my grandfather, also - John Owen Cawlfield . . . and he died in 1920. I didn't know the man, but I do know the story about his death. My father was 13 years old when his dad died of the same disease he contacted while nursing his son back to health. My dad survived, the father passed away. My father didn't say much about it, probably because he carried some guilt about it. He always spoke highly of his father, but he had difficulties with his mother. I was about 4 years old when she died, but I remember being frightened because my father wept. I'd never seen him cry.
I grew up as Philip Haight Martin. My middle name came from a distinguished professor my father much admired, Dr. E.F. Haight. Most people know me as just Phil Martin, not a good name for an author. I use my father's name for that, Philip Martin Cawlfield. He would approve. I also write under the pen name Cletus Duhon, and he too has a researchable criminal record. I suppose the criminal records of D. Paz and Cletus belong to me, so here's the skinny on that. Except for an arrest for DWI back when I was 21 years old, I've never been in jail. I've never been accused or charged with a crime, other than a few speeding tickets. In short, I'm clean.
And that in itself is somewhat of a miracle.
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