: About Me

I can grow hair anywhere on my body... except the wee top of my head... damn cruel thing wouldn't ya think... but not in my brain! No way! I prefer to think that I have "hair growing super powers" not available to the ordinay mortal man! Stan Lee.... you NEED me! :)

My passion is ...

writing... but only without using any words at all...

I know too much about ...

playing the trumpet

My parents always told me ...

to do your homework!

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a race car driver so I wouldn't have to get a job walking anywhere

My favorite memory ...

may be article here some day....

Why I write ...

because its better than a lot of other things one can do.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I don't read books. Large words fill me with discommodiousness.

My first job ...

infant

My best moment ...

may also be an article here someday... or was it already?

My inspiration ...

God

Parenting & Pregnancy > Grandparenting Family tree: True stories about gardening with my parents (or grandparents)

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This is a story about a rock. A big rock. No, a really big rock! And it is more about what the rock means to me now over what it did then, 30 years ago. My folks are serious gardeners and when moved into the new house in the northwest corner of Milwaukee, WI the "L" shaped corner of the backyard was surely going to become a healthy garden. Like leaves budding every spring there we were helping dig and turn the soil. Then, digging somewhere in the elbow of the "L" came the familiar fingernail-on-chalkboard scraping of a spade on rock. Not uncommon. Normally you might dig up the fist-sized r...

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