Here are my answer's to GreyDuck's contribution to blogging, Past, Present, and Future:

Past: When we're kids we want to be noticed, adored, and most of all, world-famous. What crazy, improbable scheme did you plan to ride to the top? I was going to be a famous author. I was going to be on the Mike Douglas show. I guess I just showed my age there, but in my defense, we are talking elementary school.

Present: What would you like to be famous for now? Same thing, or maybe an artist, but my artwork is probably too realistic to make a favorable impression on the art world. Maybe a comedian, but I’m not sure my humor is stand-up style.

Future: The eyes of the world are upon you as you stand, award clasped to your chest, before the cameras. Who, in your acceptance speech, do you thank? “Wow. Wow. ‘They like me, they really like me!’” (Pause for laughter.) “I’d like to thank my mom, who always said I could be whatever I wanted, my dad for giving me my sense of humor, my grandmother for helping me through my first year of college financially…my husband for putting up with me, all the teachers and librarians who encouraged my love of reading and writing, my friends for also putting up with me, and my employer for eliminating my job in 1995 – it was a tremendous catalyst for me, and I hated that job.”