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Why Do I Write This Stuff?

“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire is not to write.”                                                                                                         Hugh Prather  I developed a pretty good writing discipline when I was writing monologue jokes for Jay Leno.  And I learned it was better to write badly than not write at all.   I’ve been trying to figure out why I’ve been writing this stuff down. I think some of it is my grandkids. Hopefully ,some of these stories will give them a bit more insight into what I was like after I’m  gone. And I hope they will be entertained by some of these stories that involved their Granddaddy. Reaching your mid sixties gives you that kind of perspective.  And I guess I have a strong desire to put on paper the stories I have been telling for a while now.  I certainly haven’t lived an extra-ordinary life, but it seems that some of the things I have done (that I can make public) have entertain