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My Real Ten Things List (No Lies)
Dang it, I got tagged
4 min readSep 19, 2018
- I was bilingual as a very small child. From age 1 to age 5 I lived in Germany so I learned to speak in both English and German. When I moved back to America at age 5 I IMMEDIATELY forgot all the German I had learned and I have remained uni-lingual ever since — although I do know the Spanish words for a lot of different foods.
- With the sole exception of the Department of Motor Vehicles I have not allowed anyone to take a photograph of me in over 30 years. No photo of me exists on the internet and there has never been any photo of me on any of my books. I didn’t even have a wedding photo from my last marriage. I’m kind of like Crazy Horse who never allowed himself to be photographed or painted or drawn because he believed that was stealing the energetic essence of him. And I have never in my life taken a selfie.
- Because there are no public photos of me no one knows that I have green eyes. Now you know.
- Back in the early Seventies a fad swept the nation known as streaking. It involved getting naked and running through a public venue. I participated (twice).
- I once entered a jalapeno eating contest and came in second place.
- Thanks to what I learned in a CPR class that I took I once saved a person’s life. That person was my…
