1. I just lost over 200 pounds! (I sold my weights today.)
2. I live near Greenville, SC. I’m divorced (twice). I have two children, Grant (14) and Lizzy (11). They keep me here. Sometimes against my will.
3. I am am a salesman/project manager for a specialty contractor that designs, manufactures, installs, and maintains corrosion ressistant linings in process vessels in the paper, chemical, and power industries. It’s not what I am. It’s what I do. I’m still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. In the mean time, I sell and manage.
4. I am a Tiger twice. Graduated from Auburn and from Clemson. Paw power helps with the locals but there is only one battle cry that stirs my spirit. War Eagle!
5. After learning that a classmate from my acting classes at Auburn was a regular on Johnny Carson and a cast member on Saturday Night Live (Victoria Jackson), I managed to get myself fired from my first post-college job and I ran away to Hollywood, CA. I stayed 24 hours. I was not discovered.
6. God is real. I’m not so sure about us.
7. I want to own and operate a 100 acre worm farm.
8. I just learned that there are no frog farms in the United States and that the US is the second largest importer of frog legs in the world. Hmmm. Is this not a country of opportunities or what?! Ribbit!
9. I recently finished an improvisation class at a local theatre. Fun!
10. I am officially an unemployed actor with no experience and no prospects. I have arrived. Life is good!
11. I think my sister is the coolest chick I know.
12. I still get people telling me (albeit rarely now) that my election speech for student council president, way back in 1977, was one of the funniest things they had ever seen. I like that because the coolest sound that I have ever heard was seven or eight hundred kids laughing all at once.
13. People say nice things to me sometimes. I’m finally starting to believe them.
14. I’ve been accepted to the PhD program in Technology Management (Construction) at Indiana State University. It’s a distance learning program and I’m scheduled to start in the fall. I’m still thinking about whether or not I’m up to it. I still harbor this fantasy about teaching as a working retirement.
15. I love being southern!
16. I miss my brother, Sonny. Lost at sea in a helicopter crash March 3, 1981. Life changed fundamentally from that moment on. Those of us who have lost a loved one in service to this country, whether in war or in preparation for it, understand the true cost of defending our freedom and security. I am radically, unapologetically pro-America. God bless this great country and her citizens. Semper Fidelis.
17. I can’t help myself, I love being irreverent.
18. I want to live in a motorhome and move from place to place at the drop of a hat.
19. I love speed and competition. I want get and race a 600 Racing Thunder Roadster.
20. If I had been raised Catholic (instead of converting in my 30’s) and had known about contemplative (centering) prayer before I had any children, I would have joined a monastery. Yeah, really.
21. If I had joined a monastery, I would have been kicked out for my inability to stifle irreverent remarks and my lifelong commitment to the belief that the only mistake Jesus ever made was to leave it up to his disciples to get it right for posterity. The Truth is what transcends the packaging and posturing. Very little tolerance out there for heresy within the Christian culture. Makes for some lonely Sundays.
22. Deep inside, I am such a hippie.
23. I have a pilot’s license (not current). When things got tough, I formulated a plan to rent a plane, head it towards the gulf on autopilot, parachute out over Harpersville, get my motorcycle out of the 280 storage shed, and head off into the sunset to start a new life. But then I found out it has already been done…
24. I wish I had a trade.
25. I want to ride a motorcycle to the tip of South America and back.
26. I miss Ronald Reagan (and the rest of his great generation).
27. Depression kills. I’ve been through it. I understand it. I don’t know the details of the recent suicide of a high school friend. I had not seen her since high school but I thought she was an awesome human being. The news struck me like a hammer to the head. Let me make this clear. If any of you people ever feel like you are ready to kill yourself, CALL ME, 24/7, 864-414-5219. Find me if I’ve changed numbers. I don’t’ care if we haven’t seen each other in 50 years or if we barely ever knew one another. I’ll come get you no matter where you are. I promise. There will be another sunrise, in more ways than one, you can rest assured of that. Many of us share a common history. It is there for a reason, to give us meaning, perspective, and support. Use it.
28. I have inertia. I am slowww to get going but, once in motion, difficult to stop. (No charge for the extra 3.)
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Just let me state, right here for the public to see, you are one of the funniest, most creative, intellectual, sweet and caring people I know (and for those of you who do not know me, I am happily married LOL). But I do think Dean Schell is one of the coolest people I've ever known (even if we did lose touch for 30+ years). Carry on my wayward son....
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