Weird, Wild and Wonderful 

(Blind Boys of Alabama Transition)

Weird, wild and wonderful – that was what I was thinking as I stood on the football field at Norwalk Junior High School in 1983, waiting for my high school graduation ceremony to begin.  As in, “I don’t know what’s going to happen next, but I hope it is weird, wild and wonderful.”  

All I knew for certain was that after a summer working on the county road crews, I would leave the house I grew up in on Main St. and begin attending Miami University. I had no plans — just wishes, hopes, and maybe a prayer. 

Introduction to a book I will never write - Warm Bodies (2013)

Introduction

Early spring of 2013, I was sitting in a movie theater and as the lights came up, tears began running down my face. I didn’t know why, but the movie we just watched touched me in a place I didn’t know needed touching.