: About Me

35 year old male, NC

facebook.com/dougburrell, twitter.com/dougwburrell

I'm a single father with custody of my beautiful and very smart 8 year old daughter. Raising her provides me with most of my inspiration when I write. I live in southeastern NC.

My passion is ...

thinking about all the great things I could do...tomorrow.

I know too much about ...

the Beach Boys. They've been an obsession of mine since I was a little boy.

My parents always told me ...

to shut up.

My childhood ambition ...

was to marry Doris Day.

My favorite memory ...

is the birth of my daughter.

Why I write ...

I write mostly to entertain myself.

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

I love Jane Austen books and nature shows.

My first job ...

was cleaning up a meat department in a supermarket.

My best moment ...

is still yet to come.

My inspiration ...

I'm inspired by so many people on an almost daily basis.

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The Life and Times of a Boy named Doug, as Told by Doug Himself Chapter 1 Being Birthed Used to be I wasn't always was. Before I was was, I wasn't. That is until my momma made me was when she birthed me. I reckon' I've been was for 35 years now. I was born in a very famous city called Baltimore. It's in Maryland, which, I suppose, was named after some lady named Mary. (But, I'm not certain about that.) I had a very nice childhood. I had an older brother and sister to play with and I was very much loved, too. My momma told me that though she didn't plan on me, she reckoned that as far as mi...

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