The wonder on my face while looking at my brand-new cap gun was genuine. Truth be told it’s how I’ve lived my life, in wonder.
These days when asked what I do I answer that I'm a writer, published author in fact. I write twice a week blog titled "Morning Musings" which is also the title of my book. In better times I've been an entertainer working as s cowboy/folk singer storyteller at resorts in Arizona.
I guess the idea is to tell you, the reader, some things about me that will get you interested in checking out the rest of my site. I get it but there’s a problem, I’m not all that interesting, in fact at times, bunches of times in fact, I find I’m not all that interested in me. Right up front I realize that’s likely not the best way to start out an “About Me” page. Then again, now you’ve already learned something about me since you’ve read this far. I guess you might look at that as something dang near close to a win-win sort of thing.
Since I find writing about myself very much along the lines of watching paint dry I asked for help and a friend of mine wrote back with what I think is probably the perfect “About Me” introduction, “I am a guy. I love to play guitar and sing. I like to write stuff. Here is my website. You will learn about me as you go along.” My thanks to George Breed, you should check him out on Facebook and look on Amazon for the books he’s written.
George is right, I do play guitar, I’ve also played a bit of banjo and a bit of mandolin though I admit to never having gotten serious about learning how to play any of them. I do sing as well—some tell me I ain’t half-bad in fact. I’ve strummed my guitar, sang some songs and told a story or two for a long time here in Arizona. I’ve been involved in the acoustic music scene in Arizona for going on thirty years now I’m guessing. Up until the pandemic I’d been performing at resorts for better than fifteen years.
I do like to write and much to my amazement I ended up becoming a published author. “Morning Musings” is the name of the book. So, when it comes up in general conversation I can proudly proclaim that, “Why yes, I am a published author.” No, I can’t remember that ever coming up in any conversation I’ve been a part of but still… Morning Musings is also the name of something I’ve been writing and sharing for some time now on Facebook.
I also love photography. My dream in life was to become a photojournalist but life had other plans for me. Still, over the years I've been a ship’s photographer while I was in the Navy, studied photojournalism at Arizona State University and was a professional architectural photographer for a brief while.
My goal here is to encourage others to move beyond their comfort zones. With that in mind I’m going to share pretty much everything in my life with you. That means everything from my writing, my trying to learn to play the guitar better, my singing (I’m pretty good at that already I hear), my working at getting healthier, the wanderings I’ll be heading out on, to whatever else might come up.
One of my favorite sayings is, “Not all who wander are lost.” I’ve come to realize that I do wander but I may not be as lost as I sometimes think I am.
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