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 In
order to clear up any future confusion, let’s take a moment and let
me explain who I am and why I write these columns each and every
week. First off, I was born at a very early age. I arrived in this
world with very little. It was during the war and according to my
parents, names were being rationed out. My Mom was kind of slow and
she couldn’t run very fast. I guess by the time she got down
to the Federal Bureau of Names, all of the Johns, Jims, and Davids
were gone.
So,
according to what I’ve been told…she just settled on two names
that were the same, but weren’t. As in Peary Perry. As you can
imagine, I’ve heard every kind of comment that can be made on this
matter since I was born. "Peary Perry…quite
contrary…." and so on and so on. Leaving a message for
someone on the phone requires me to maintain a certain sense of
patience. I’ve been getting comments all of my life, but this is the
first time these people have ever heard a name like this. Some
people (seems to be more and more) just hang up because they think
I’m kidding them or something. I have contemplated using an alias,
but then it kinds of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it?
The
most original one I ever heard was from some lady on the phone who
started to say something and then said……"You know I’ll bet
you’ve heard just about every comment there is and I don’t think I
have anything original to say…" That was unique. I won’t bore
you with the details of my youth, but just let it be sufficient to
say that I had a good time. Once I was out of high school, I
couldn’t afford to go to college, so off I went in the Army. Spent 3
years there, came home and became a cop. Spent 7 years working
undercover as a vice squad officer and then left to go into business
for myself. This is where I’ve been ever since.
I
suppose, I always wanted to write about life in general. I like
people and think that we need to see the bright side of just about
everything, if we can. Some years ago, a friend of mine started a
newspaper and asked me to write a weekly humor column for him. I
goofed around and didn’t really put out much effort into what I was
supposed to be doing. I ended up in a creative writing course in a
local college. The instructor asked if any of us ever wrote anything
that had been published. I raised my hand. He asked how often…and
I told him that I did , whenever I got the time….He then asked me
"If you have an opportunity to write and you don’t…then why
are you in this course?" I didn’t have an answer, so I went
back, sat down and have been knocking these out every week for the
past 6 years or so.
If
you read these, you know these are about life and it’s many
mysteries. I try to blend in humor, satire, sadness and laughter to
everything I write about. I am always looking for sources of another
story. I think your mind is a muscle and you have to keep using it
to stay in practice. I am constantly looking for something to write
about each and every week. Sometimes, you can see if I have had a
good week by the stress that shows up in this column. Most of us
have good and bad weeks in our daily lives. In the near future
I will have a web page that will allow me to get this out to others
who have expressed a desire to read my stories. I appreciate your
reading what I have written. I hope you are able to see the humor
and human side of life that we all experience while we are on planet
earth. This writing thing is a great hobby for me, but is
therapeutic as well. If I can write something that you agree with or
that makes you smile and have a better day…then all of my efforts
are certainly worthwhile. I’ll keep on cranking these out as long as
you keep reading. Take care.
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