: About Me

I am a 38 year old CPA from the Midwest. I have always had a lean toward writing, especially creative writing. I've been published in a couple of local pubs and collections, but would love to leave the numbers behind (although I do like my job) and write full time.

My passion is ...

My wife

I know too much about ...

Basketball (but I'm from Indiana, what do you expect?)

My parents always told me ...

Never throw the first punch, but always throw the last

My childhood ambition ...

To be the next Pete Meravitch

My favorite memory ...

My wedding day (yes, sounds sappy, but my wife's not watching and I still say it is)

Why I write ...

To let out of my head all the voices and stories that build up in it.

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

Reading Tony Dungy's book, watching nothing, listening to Jeremy Camp

My first job ...

Putting up hay

My best moment ...

Graduating College (coming from a family without even a HS graduate in it)

My inspiration ...

Jesus Christ - despite your religeous views, if we could live like him, our life would be so much better.

Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: My Beagle

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She's lying in her bed next to my desk as I write. She's fighting for each precious breath now. I held up her water dish for her so she could get a nice long drink and she, for a brief moment looked at me with those thoughtful eyes that we fell in love with over 13 years ago. JoJo is a lemon beagle that I got my wife as a valentine present in 1995. She was our first "child" and for 6 years an only child. But now she's dying. She has cancer and it has spread into her lungs. She hasn't eaten anything of substance in 4 days. I've had many dogs in my life, but none like JoJo. She is much more ...

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