: About Me

Grew up in small town Nebraska, left to see the world and have been wandering the globe since. One Love.

My passion is ...

People and finding out what moves them.

I know too much about ...

I don't believe you can ever know too much.

My parents always told me ...

Reach for the sky and remember to look both ways before crossing the street.

My childhood ambition ...

To be President.

My favorite memory ...

Playing chess with my Dad.

Why I write ...

I don't know, guess it feels good.

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

Reading Tom Brokaw, and listening to Death Cab for Cutie

My first job ...

Dairy Queen

My best moment ...

The best is yet to come.

My inspiration ...

My parents.

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Childhood memories

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Alien Invasion A photograph of me when I was a boy: A skinny, pale, corky kid with huge, wire-frame, coke-bottle glasses. Along with Transformer t-shirts and an out-of-control imagination, I made my way through childhood one dinosaur attack at-a-time. My brother Steve, who was four years older and therefore obligated to mess with me, was the exact opposite. While he was blowing up bullfrogs or building a raft to take Huck Finn adventures down the creek by our house, I was a spy in Star Wars or a jet pilot on a top-secret mission to infiltrate my house. These distinctions often led to confl...

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