I've been inspired by your work since I was a kid (ish) and I've finally co-written my own version at age 54 - my first novel - called The Dockporter (https://amzn.to/3pufs99). It's set in northern Michigan on Mackinac Island. I think you will love it. If there is any interest in a stack of freebies, please let me know.
Very glad to hear you will commence live events, which contributes to my sense of the world coming back to normal again. Will they be on radio as well?
I also had a good laugh at your response to Concerned Mom about university English departments. Sad but funny too! You may get some blowback from the morticians out there though.
Hi Garrison I am not a writer, in fact sent you a book of funny stories, Drug Tested for Being Happy. I was traumatized by my 7th grade English teacher for a poem I wrote. So, I didn't become a writer until after I retired. Since I grew up in southern Minnesota, I had all the colloquial language unique to my area. My mother would always tell me not to "peter out" and stay strong. So, when it came time to write a poem in middle school, I wrote:
Friends may come and friends may go, and friends may peter out you know,
But we'll be friends through thick and thin, peter out or peter in.
Well, I had no idea that I would get in trouble just trying to rhyme with "thin." I wasn't thinking badly, just trying to look for a word. Have you ever been misunderstood in your writing?
Hi Garrison... that is funny and amazing. I would love to find out who they are. I would contact my teacher but she has been dead for many years. It was in 1963. The old saying...Google it....lol
MASTER.
I've been inspired by your work since I was a kid (ish) and I've finally co-written my own version at age 54 - my first novel - called The Dockporter (https://amzn.to/3pufs99). It's set in northern Michigan on Mackinac Island. I think you will love it. If there is any interest in a stack of freebies, please let me know.
I want you to know, you're an inspiration.
Glad the seizure was so minor. I'm still feeling that there's a void in my Saturday evenings! Wish you'd reconsider the River Road idea!
Very glad to hear you will commence live events, which contributes to my sense of the world coming back to normal again. Will they be on radio as well?
I also had a good laugh at your response to Concerned Mom about university English departments. Sad but funny too! You may get some blowback from the morticians out there though.
No radio. I lost interest in radio, sorry.
Hi Garrison I am not a writer, in fact sent you a book of funny stories, Drug Tested for Being Happy. I was traumatized by my 7th grade English teacher for a poem I wrote. So, I didn't become a writer until after I retired. Since I grew up in southern Minnesota, I had all the colloquial language unique to my area. My mother would always tell me not to "peter out" and stay strong. So, when it came time to write a poem in middle school, I wrote:
Friends may come and friends may go, and friends may peter out you know,
But we'll be friends through thick and thin, peter out or peter in.
Well, I had no idea that I would get in trouble just trying to rhyme with "thin." I wasn't thinking badly, just trying to look for a word. Have you ever been misunderstood in your writing?
Kathy Gruhn
As you know, Kathy, some other people claim credit for those lines and I'll let you fight it out with them. Good luck. GK
Hi Garrison... that is funny and amazing. I would love to find out who they are. I would contact my teacher but she has been dead for many years. It was in 1963. The old saying...Google it....lol
I am waiting to audition to be the Blues Singer on your new radio show...don't give up on this idea!
What is your favorite blues song? Someday I want to get up the courage to sing "Statesboro Blues" in public.
"Blues in the Night"...Mercer and Arlen wrote this for a movie and every singer of note was dying to sing it...can't blame them, it's a killer!