: About Me

I knew when I was just nine years old that I wanted to be a writer. I spent my entire summer writing a mystery thriller entitled " The Bus Dump Mystery." I will spare you the details, but suffice it say...the butler didn't do it.

All these years later I find myself doing time in corporate hell slogging through a nine to five. So, here I am trying to find the me I used to be. I am hoping to tap into my creativity and write some really cool things here.

My passion is ...

Football and Music

I know too much about ...

The Bible

My parents always told me ...

Never get married

My childhood ambition ...

To win a National Magazine Award for fiction

My favorite memory ...

Buying my first house

Why I write ...

It is the only true joy in my life

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

Lyfe Jennings

My first job ...

Bill Collector

My best moment ...

Starring in The Crucible in high school

My inspiration ...

Joyce Carol Oates

Relationships & Family > Dating Dilemmas & Advice How to gracefully end a bad blind date

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Blind dating is like the Day after Thanksgiving Sale. Every time you do it, you swear you will never do it again. The pain and suffering is hardly worth the reward, and somehow that portable dvd player just wasn't worth the crushing blow to your frozen toes as they are trampled under the hysteria of eager shoppers. Maybe I am stretching a little. But I am convinced there are some similarities in the lure of these experiences. I have had several blind dates, and many of them ended poorly. Two that I can recall were snatched from the gaping jaws of disaster, and I will tell you how I did it....

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