Keeping it short today – I’m traveling again.
I’ve been selected to serve on the Musical Theatre panel to review grant applications for the National Endowment for the Arts. That’s really cool, except that it means I have to be on a plane at 6:00 AM this morning, which stops over in Denver and then heads off to DC. I got to the airport early enough to bump into Wayne Osmond of Osmond Brothers fame!
Jealous?
This Brush with Greatness wasn’t enough to make travelling fun, though. Take all the travel horror stories I told you about Kauai and apply them to a far less temperate climate.
I’m still pretty excited, though. I love DC. I was born there, although my memory of that event is hazy at best. (I was pretty young then.) We moved to sunny SoCal when I was six, but I have far more memories of my early childhood than I thought I would. My wife and I moved back to our nation’s capitol in ’94 right after we got married, and we had a blast. I was an intern for Senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming, and I got the opportunity to write several installments of “Face Off,” a nightly five-minute debate between Al Simpson and Ted Kennedy. It was broadcast on national radio, and the first time I heard it, I jumped up and down and said “Yeeha! I’m arguing with Ted Kennedy on national radio!” To which my wife responded – “No, you’re really arguing with some other snot-nosed intern in Kennedy’s office who’s saying the same thing.”
My wife keeps me humble. Which is too bad, really, ‘cause I’m a frikkin’ genius.
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