Hi, my name is Dick Donohue from Portage, Michigan. I am a child of God, a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a harmonica player and a professional computer programmer.
Humble beginnings
I was born a small white child. I don’t remember much about it. I was quite young at the time…. 
I’m told that it happened on Long Island in New York in 1961. I am the fourth of five kids. My family is now scattered across the globe. My brother, Mark, lives in Alaska. My sister, Carol, lives in New Hampshire. My brother, Paul, is in the state of Washington; and my little younger brother, Pete lives nearby in Augusta, Michigan. My father lives in California and my mother lives in Florida. Needless to say, family reunions are pretty rare. In 1969, my father, who was a marketing manager at the Upjohn Company, was transferred to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Portage (a suburb of Kalamazoo) has been my home ever since.
The Main Thing is to keep The Main Thing the Main Thing
In all that I do, I try to keep God as the first and foremost influence in my life. This can be a difficult task, but I think that I am more successful than not. For ten years, I was active as founding member of the band at Southridge Reformed Church. Some of the best memories in my life are of times worshipping and making really great music with Kevin & Deb Brown at Southridge. Today, I am honored to be part of the Creative Arts Team at Kalamazoo Community Church. The people there are loving, accepting, and incredibly genuine folk who, like me spend every day seeking God’s guidance toward “the next right thing”.
All’s Fair in Love and War
I was married in 1988. The marriage ended after she left on Memorial weekend 1996.. It took me a long time to realize it, but I was a pretty selfish jerk back then; her actions were totally justified. Fortunately, that marriage gave me two beautiful children: Brian: now a fine young 19 year-old man with a great sense of humor, and Sarah: a funny, beautiful, and intelligent high school Senior. They are the both the light of my life and I love every minute I get to spend with them.
Life goes on and just keeps getting better. God has put an angel in my life: Sherry – what can I say? She is fun, pretty, sensitive, caring, and loving. I am sure that this is who God had intended me to be with all along. So I had no choice: I asked her to marry me. And she said “Yes!” Can you believe it? We got married on August 18th, 1999. We’ve been through a lot of good times and rough times (and I’m sure there will be more!) But this is a Christ-centered marriage and we know that every day we will be more in love and more committed to each other than ever.
Am I Working or Am I just Having Fun? (yes!)
Ever since college, I’ve been one of those lucky people whose career is the same as his obsession ..er..hobby! I’m a computer programmer (an application developer). I’ve worked at several different companies. I’ve spent a great deal of time working on IBM AS/400 computers. (They have changed the name of the computer several times over the years, but if you say “AS/400″, everybody knows what you are talking about!). I think that a primary reason that I’ve stayed with “the 400″ so long is that, despite years of truly abysmal marketing from IBM, it has always been the finest business computer available. In 2002, I took a leap of faith and became self-employed and Donohue Computer Services was created. That has allowed me to do some web development and PC programming. No matter what I am doing with computers, I am almost always having fun.
