I am Best of 2006, No Really. Stop it. Really. C'mon.

Life is all about comfort zones. My writing is pushing me well outside of that, like this blog. Sure at times it is funny, sometimes not, but it is putting something out there that can be judged.

This is one of those the truth is stranger than fiction.

In the mail today I get this invite. It seems I've been selected to be one of 65 invited authors of letters to the editor at an awards reception. I am not sure I am honored, though there is free food.

There are thousands that write in, most of them to complain about something. Maybe mine was chosen because I wasn't complaining so much as offering a solution. Or maybe I just sounded more sane than the other whack jobs out there...sounded is the key word in that sentence.

It says mine was chosen do to its timeliness, writing style and a fresh viewpoint. If that isn't me, I don't know what is...

In my first (and only) letter to the editor, I get this. I wish I had won that lottery in Belgium instead...

Comments

Anonymous said…

Do you really eat hors d' oeuvres? That is French from something yucky, isn't it? We all know your feelings about anything French.

Noj nOj noJ

3:00 PM

Anonymous said…

Chocalate CAKE chocalate Cake
EAT SO MUCH GET A TUMMY ACHE

3:09 PM

The Big Melon said…

True on both accounts, I am no fan of the French and I do love choco cake.

3:17 PM

todays survey

Since you all have done so well with the past two surveys I've taken ( another shirt slogan for Dad and do you get full eating salad or just bored ), here is another: If you eat, say, a bag full of fortune cookies - and I am not saying I have - do they all come true or just a first/last rule? Do they all negate if you eat more than one? Anyone? Bueller?

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