Quote and Pics

My novel in progress, Plundered booty is broken down into three parts. At the start of each part I include a quote that I feel bears relevance to the upcoming section. As a result of scouring through quotes I have found many good ones that do not work for my story but that I like. I'm going to include a few of those today as well as a few more recent pictures.

Ernest Hemingway ~ A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I hope this one isn't true since I am attempting to write a funny book.

Tom Snyder ~ If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they are made of meat?

This goes along with my personal motto "Lettuce is the Devil quite nicely.

Erma Bombeck ~ There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

This is why everybody should have kids of their own. That way they get to experience Christmas and life through their eyes. Without that joy I think you age far too quickly.

Sir Winston Churchill ~ Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.

No truer words have ever been spoken, and I am in that tyrant stage.

And this quote goes well with my recent tattoo discussion ...

I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I'm thinking, okay, here's a gal who's capable of making a decision she'll regret in the future. ~Richard Jeni

This is the entire crew (minus me of course who is taking the shot) that recently went to Six Flags down in Arlington, Texas.

That's my wife over on the far right and my boys front and center. Behind them is our friend Janet and her seventeen-year-old daughter who is a very talented writer in her own right. Over on the left is our friend Steve and his fifteen-year-old daughter who is a budding golf pro.

And a recent shot of me.