![]() With today’s temperatures dropping into the teens, I’m outlining my next book about Hawaii.Ĭheck out some more encouragement and writing tips in WRITE, BABY, WRITE: You Can Do It! Available at Amazon ($2.99)Īre you ready to sing? Once this tune gets in your head, it’s there to stay. It should be mandatory that a writer visits the place he writes about. Just like Lenny and I retraced our past steps, writers should come out of their shells (or bat wings), and walk in the same shoes as their characters. Heaven knows how long it takes to write that many words. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, several photographs will accompany each chapter. The book’s upcoming print copy will have old Owensboro pictures as well as the recent ones Lenny and I risked our reputations for. More than a few folks wondered what we were up to.Ī memorable day was spent all for the sake of My Big O Journey: Growing up in Owensboro, Kentucky. Even better was our side trip to a sewer ditch where we frequently picnicked. We got a lot of stares in the small town, but I promise we only parked in the liquor store’s drive-thru in order to get the best shot of the old steel mill. ![]() Like spies, we parked on street corners and zoomed in on house trailers, mansions, even corn fields. “I pictured you driving a mini-van,” Lenny said. ![]() I’m still sore.įor our next scavenger hunt photo, we took my car. I tunneled down the playground’s tornado slide for a not-so-graceful landing, static electrified hair and all. So many memories were made on the river, even ones from the Boogie Shack. On a happy note, Lenny said, “This spot is where I proposed to my wife.” “We weren’t born yet, but it was right over there by the Hampton Inn.” Taking a photo from where I watched past Regattas, I wondered if I could see through the rails to where the hanging was. We began our hometown adventure at the riverfront playground, puzzled by how to climb the concrete trees. The crazy lady may have been yelling for them to slow down too. I later learned the shell is really a bat wing, but thankfully, my friend saw a touristy person trying not to strangle herself with the zoom lens around her neck as she ran towards the river-as if that would make the passing barges hold still for a picture under the bridge. ![]() We arranged to meet under the river’s shell. I met a friend who has known me and my faults since I was six years old. While one doesn’t define the other, it was still a worthwhile venture to connect the dots. I had travelled to my hometown with camera in hand, determined to link the past with the present. Thrown in /home/waxwo823/public_html/wp-content/plugins/seo-ultimate/includes/jlfunctions/arr.On a quest to go back in time, I barely made it out of Owensboro, Kentucky before Snowmageddon hit. #4 /home/waxwo823/public_html/wp-content/themes/vantage/home-panels.php(22): the_content() #1 /home/waxwo823/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(287): SU_ContentAutolinks->autolink_content('apply_filters('
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