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About me

I'm a newspaper reporter in Lancaster, PA, and run on the online review site Rambles.NET. I'm also the fiddler and bodhranist in an Irish band, Fire in the Glen.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

living well.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a writer.

Why I write ...

because I love writing and sharing ideas.

My first job ...

McDonald's burger flipper.

My best moment ...

proposing to Kate the SECOND time - and getting it right!

Featured article by Tom Knapp

Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Learning to play violin as a child: 4 of 12

I wanted to play the flute when I was young. I don't know why I chose that instrument, but it was solidly in my imagination whenever I thought about joining the school band. But then I got a recommendation from my school, urging me to choose the fiddle. I don't know why I was picked for that instrument - maybe they had a shortage of violinists signing up that year - but to my third-grade mind the school had to know better than I did, so I chose the violin. The violin is hard. For the next couple of years I was sent each week to a tiny room just off my school cafeteria for lessons with a wo...
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