This spot is written to because Mickki Langston inspired me with her very interesting, friendly, open, loving, gentle bio. I was moved and want to prove that here. For Mickki, in an odd way . . .

Akron, OhiO is MY birthplace. I capitalize odd shit and I gotta mouth like an X-Marine who grew up in, or by the projects and who worked construction for twenty-five years. I don't take shit from anyone, but I go far out of MY Way not to give Other people shit.

I actually have a logic to MY capitalization. I am a loving, generous, cooperative person, even though I look like a tough, mean-spirited, nasty, little, porcupine at first.

First impressions can be very misleading.

I open doors for old ladies and then bend down to tie their shoes -- after asking them, even though the bending thing is not easy for me anymore.

I have been shot, stabbed, run-over and blown-up; I take a "licking and keep on ticking."

I can say in ALL modesty that I am one of the premier peacemakers on the planet -- even though I cannot spell premiere. I CAN help YOU to be at peace -- right now, right here.

Thaknx to young Richard Alpert.

I love everybody named Richard -- even Richard Speck. May the Lord have mercy on HIS Soul.

I was beaten every day of MY childhood and regularly tortured by those who claimed to love me. I have come to love MY abusers today, thank god that I survived THEM, and learned how not to abuse Others in MY own life. And I do not use the G-word lightly -- here, or elsewhere.

I have the kind of old wounds and scars that make really conscious doctors wince, but then I have the opportunity to educate the doctor that ANYTHING that does not kill US can be overcome and turned to an avenue of peace and JOY.

I love JOY and I live in peace. I am JOYous a lot and I want to jump for JOY many times a day.

I know ALL the jokes about jumping for JOY, so emails in that direction, unless you know ME, won't win YOU brownie points unless they are excessively witty and imaginative.

I love wit and imagination.