: About Me

As a Humor Columnist, most evenings I can be found wiping drops of hot chocolate from my sticky keyboard, while attempting to draft short whimsical stories about life as seen through the bleary eyes of a senior. Actually, it's quite amazing how life has become more clear to me since my cataract removal. These stories (between 400-500 words) are for my twice monthly column "The Better Side," published in our local Arizona newspaper "The Communicator."

With a-still beating pulse-on the senior community, the bulk of my stories are derived from any small nuance that catches me as being slightly off-key, which then causes a neon sign-similar to that of a pinball machine-to light up inside my head, and without any warning whatsoever, the steel ball is rocketing out of the chute, and the game is on. My mind works similar to that of an older pinball machine, in that, I have those certain moments (even days) where my flippers are responding entirely too slowly, and as I try to maneuver the ball by pushing and pulling the machine, the tilt light comes on reminding me that tomorrow is another day.

I was recently commissioned to produce a "Welcome to my school," book for a prestigious children's school in Los Angeles. I also have many children's books that I have written, but have thus far, not attempted to publish.
Contact me sometime and we will talk. khrich15@yahoo.com.
Check out my website. www.welcometoseniorhood.com.

My passion is ...

Penning life's funniest moments.

I know too much about ...

The waiting room at my doctor's office.

My parents always told me ...

Do as I say, not as I do. I didn't listen...

My childhood ambition ...

To be anything but ordinary. I still fight normalcy.

My favorite memory ...

An entire childhood of near poverty. Or, "How to live on a dime."

Why I write ...

I don't like the programs my wife watches on television.

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

Dave Barry, Rich Karlin, Sesame Street.

My first job ...

Mowing lawns for a buck and a quarter.

My best moment ...

Whoops, I just missed it.

My inspiration ...

Children, mis-spelled words, and the idea that no matter how I have abused my body over the years, I still wake up every morning.

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