: About Me

I am embarking on a new cycle in my life. I am expressing myself in the best possible way that I know how, and that is to make you laugh.

My passion is ...

Laughter

I know too much about ...

nothing and a little about everything

My parents always told me ...

get a job, go to work, and pray you don't get laid off

My childhood ambition ...

Phys Ed teacher

My favorite memory ...

four-wheeling in the Grand Canyon

Why I write ...

to make people smile

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

Lewis Grizzard, Erma Bombeck, Mark Twain. Listening to whatever shuffles on the ipod

My first job ...

I ran a vegetable stand when I was 12

My best moment ...

Hasn't happened yet

My inspiration ...

is just being alive

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: My father

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Growing up on the farm on Cherry Fork Road was a lot of fun. We raised tobacco, had a HUGE garden, dabbled in the hog business and had a few cows and chickens. We had a tractor, a wagon, and a manure spreader as well as various lawn mowers, rototillers and chainsaws. Give a man a chainsaw and it's like giving candy to a fat kid. They don't know when to stop. My dad loved his chainsaw. I don't remember what the name brand was but it was yellow and matched his pickup truck. Throw in a Kool cigarette dangling out of his mouth and a John Deere cap perched on his hat and he was ready to do some...

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