Here are ten things that I've done that I'm not sure anyone else would want to do, though some may have...

1. As a sophomore in high school, applied body make-up to 4 shirtless macho varsity-football-playing sword dancers in kilts for a production of "Brigadoon" without blushing, giggling, or groping even once. The power of self-preservation.

2. Met the Pointer Sisters when I worked one summer at a theme park.

3. During a summer job with the County, issued a marriage license to my sweet, blonde, high school English composition teacher even though I could tell at a glance the new husband would be a total jerk and would soon join her two other exes. (I was right).

4. At a concert in the Astrodome, Madonna flung her sweat upon me sitting/standing in the front row.

5. Scouted and marked Native American burial mounds and trees not to be cut on a proposed new golf course while working for the County Judge in college. If you’ve played the Bear Creek Golf World, you’ve seen my handy work.

6. Acted as a guardian ad litem for 6 juvenile sex offenders while in law school and developed a keen hatred for predatory boyfriends and step fathers...and a deep appreciation for those men and women who take their role of raising "someone else's" child very seriously.

7. Represented one of Evander Holyfield's minions in a multi-million dollar action against George Foreman.

8. Ate dinner one table over from Bonnie Raitt in the Napa Valley one delightful fall evening.

9. Published an article in a major Christian magazine semi-complaining about how students are relatively unimportant to seminary powers-that-be, and those powers-that-be actually praised the article. Ironic?

10. Sat next to Barbi Benton once at an Aspen wine tasting dinner. She spent the evening constantly touching my arm when she talked. That same weekend, I met and spoke with Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, and the Smothers Brother that had (has?) a winery.