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About me - Jack Bates

About me

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Briefly me

My passion is ...

writing.

I know too much about ...

Disney, Green Lantern, Film Festivals.

My parents always told me ...

"Get the hell out of bed. It's after one."

My childhood ambition ...

was to write and live IN Disney World.

My favorite memory ...

now involves my children.

Why I write ...

because I have to.

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

Into the Wild.

My first job ...

putting in sod.

My best moment ...

was when I got my first option contract for a screenplay.

My inspiration ...

Donna Duffy- Creative Writing teacher extraordinaire.

Featured article by Jack Bates

Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenthood Funny parenting stories
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A year had passed since we adopted our daughter from China when we decided to find a meeting point for several of the adopting families we had met during our two weeks together. We would be coming from all over the US so finding an equitable meeting spot was going to take some figuring. In the end, we decided Nashville would be a decent half way spot for those of us who were going to make the reunion trip.

On the morning of the second day, we went to the Nashville Science Center, which is a large industrial warehouse shaped building with an opaque pyramid on the top. My son and several o...

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