Alabama Eight-Year-Old Is A Best Selling Author

Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 1 month ago to Books
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Here is an inspiring~"I learned to follow my own dreams"~child's tale from me dino's neck of the woods.
Here's further information about the article~
Hoover is the ritziest satellite city of Birmingham where I generally go to buy the good stuff albeit PC related products, Big & Tall clothes, guns, the best indoor shooting range, the best mall, the best book store, the best Chinese deli, etc
I get Yerllowhammer with four or five articles in my email every day.
The yellowhammer woodpecker is Alabama's state bird.
Yellowhammer is even mentioned in the Crimson Tide's infamous nyah we beat you taunt chant.
Even during the short time it was banned, the fans sang it anyway. I was in the stands the first time that happened.
Coaches of the opposing team (can't recall which 20 or so years ago) turned around and gawked up at us as if saying, "How dare you?"
http://gridironnow.com/alabamas-ramme....

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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    When is when I finish Chasing Little Red. I'm rewriting the second half and I will change the prologue to Little Red (Babette LeBrun) as a little girl being diagnosed as having sometimes aggressive behavior problems due to an endemic memory (not yet called photographic by a Nazi doctor, who messed with prisoners in a concentration camp, believe it or not).
    My "great American novel" is set in Aug 23-24, 1914 Belgium and the citizens of Dinant (where over 600 of them were massacred) may appreciate it for tourism purposes.
    Oh, take a look at Dinant. Breathtaking! The saxophone was invented there, That's why it's superimposed over a couple of photos.
    https://www.google.com/search?q=dinan...
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    August is generally the worst month though sometimes the first two weeks of September can be even hotter.
    There was a peculiar year during the 90s when I was mostly working the back gate tower (few trusted with that post) that June was actually hotter than the rest of that Summer.
    As for that particular August I almost all of took off, I spent some of it at a family reunion at that lake you and I are familiar with.
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 8 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, at this point in time, what difference does it make? :) Sorry, that was my Shillary impersonation.
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 8 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    But you'll do it. I have every confidence in you. When you have finished your great American novel, do we in the Gulch get a sneak peak?
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I am thinking that Alabama is hot from May To
    October. St Paul always has had a big Birthday parade for you and the Sinclair gas station sported a green Dino with a shamrock.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    When I turned 21, my French-Irish mom wanted to hear half Swedish me say, "Today I yam a man."
    Can't think of ten birthdays that were all that over the top special.
    I had a birthday when attending the academy for the Alabama Department of Corrections in Selma back in 1982. On that day my class rode a school bus with our instructors to tour Kilby Prison at Montgomery and I was telling everybody this was my birthday present.
    During my 21-year career, I got to take over 10 of my birthdays off. Most state workers get state holidays off. Not so at prisons. At prisons you work a holiday and then put in paperwork to take that day off. Saint Patrick's Day ain't a state holiday but who wants to work on his birthday? The state of Alabama ain't all that into Saint Patrick's day~so putting in to get my same day birthday off was pretty easy-peasy.
    By 1985 I realized that I really hated to work a prison in the Summer heat. So I saved up my holiday time and combined it with my vacation time to take almost the entire month of August off.
    After I successfully pulled that stunt, the warden put out a memo that corrections officers could only have two week vacations period.
    I was all like "Aw, c'mon! What difference does it make?"
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Easy. Some retired people have a hobby. I work on a novel. Finishing a good one is the hard part.
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 8 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I heard that 70 is the new 50. So you have decades ahead of you. Take the little girl's advice and follow your dreams.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I need to attend to that dreaded task as well. I certainly can procrastinate easily with that work!
    Take a few moments to think of your top ten birthdays moments and share if you would.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I did, though a party postponed for tonight again got postponed until Saturday next week.
    The reason? A granddaughter was diagnosed with the flu on my birthday.
    It just hit me writing this. I should send her a get well card. Not in person, though.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Congratulations 70 is quite a mile stone. Happy birthday David I hope you enjoyed the day!!
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  • Posted by Dobrien 8 years, 1 month ago
    That is awesome, a true building block for her future.
    Speaking of inspired. We all would love to read old Dino's fiction . I can't wait to have the Yellowhammer publish news of "Chasing little Red" and of the perils and revenge of Babette.

    I don't know if the Northern flicker or yellowhammer makes its way to Minnesota ,but it does look familiar. The coolest woodpecker I have seen in the back yard is a Pileated woodpecker.https://g.co/kgs/n5KLX3
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