About Me
Ok, here it is, a page about me...it's taken me so long to do a page for my cats, and one about the story of two of them and a couple other pages, I just don't know where to start about ME...
I am Irish/German on my mother's side, and I'm Irish, Cherokee, English on my father's side.
I have always loved music of just about any kind. Anything from Aerosmith, The Cure, Tracy Chapman, Metallica (a few...), REM, Shaggy, Kid Rock (just one song. lol), to The Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Simon & Garfunkel, Peter Paul & Mary, Crosby Stills & Nash, Anne Murray, Kenny Rogers, Garth Brooks, Dr. Demento, Thyrd Tyme Out, James Blunt, Yanni, David Lanz, Enigma, Enya, and Jamie Foxx...to name very few. My favorites change every day, it seems. But, it also depends on my mood, of course...
I am also very strong willed and opinionated, ask my mother. LOL Although, I seem to disagree with most of what she thinks...
One of the best things that has happened to me was spending a year in Colorado. I met so many wonderful friends, and have stayed close to many of them since coming back to Ohio. I joined a national service program called Americorps*NCCC. It's a program based on the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930's. I was on a team of twelve. My team worked with people at a wonderful place named Atlantis, Inc. They help to find homes and jobs and job skills for people with disabilities. We also built a few community gardens in and around Denver. We went to Texas for a few months to begin restoration on historical cabins at Lake Fannin. We also worked at an art studio, teaching kids how to paint, do pottery, etc. We even built a sand box in the form of a dragon! And my favorite of all the projects my team worked on was in Salida, Colorado. We worked with the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service. We built portage trails along the Arkansas River. We built fences and parking areas at Railroad Bridge. We rebuilt a wetlands area that had been moved for the parking lot at Railroad Bridge. And we put in picnic tables around the area. It was exhausting...but so much fun at the same time. And to be able to look at what had been done each day, and actually see progress, was the best feeling in the world. I find myself missing Colorado often. The sunsets, the weather, the Rocky Mountains, everything. Here's why I want to go back...can you imagine this in person?
I am hereby officially tendering
my resignation as an adult. I have
decided I would like to accept the
responsibilities of an 8 year-old.
I want to go to McDonald's and think
that it's a four star restaurant.
I want to think M&Ms are better than
money because you can eat them.
I want to lie under a big oak tree and
run a lemonade stand with my friends on
a hot summer's day.
I want to return to a time when life was
simple; When all you knew were colors,
multiplication tables, and nursery
rhymes, but that didn't bother you,
because you didn't know what you
didn't know and you didn't care.
All you knew was to be happy because you were
blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you
worried or upset.
I want to think the world is fair.
That everyone is honest and good.
I want to believe that anything is
possible. I want to be oblivious
to the complexities of life and be
overly excited by the little things again.
I want to live simple again. I
don't want my day to consist of
computer crashes, mountains of paperwork,
depressing news, how to survive more days
in the month than there is money in the
bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness,
and loss of loved ones.
I want to believe in the power of
smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth,
justice, peace, dreams, the imagination,
mankind, and making angels in the snow.
So . . . here's my checkbook
and my car-keys, my credit card bills
and my 401K statements. I am officially
resigning from adulthood.
And if you want to discuss this
further, you'll have to catch me
first, cause........
When you are sad,.............I will get you drunk and help you plot
revenge When you are scared,......... I will laugh at you and tease you about
it
When you are worried,.........I will tell you
When you are confused,........
When you are sick.........I will hold your hair
When you fall......I will point and laugh at your clumsy ass.
This is my oath...............I pledge till the end.
Why you may ask?..............Because you're my friend.
A friend emailed this to me, I thought it was pretty funny......LOL
I was born in Michigan, and was lucky enough to move to Ohio when I was two. So, when the Buckeyes are playing...especially when they're playing Michigan, I'm a Buckeye fan. Any other time, I don't really care all that much.
I mentioned on my first page, I think, that I'm a hippie, stuck in the wrong decade. I have believed that since I was a kid. I used to tell my mom all the time that I was born in the wrong decade- she just laughed. I realize that there are many more things from those decades that weren't as positive as great music, hilarious fashions, etc. Wars, women's rights struggles, civil rights struggles, are all things I probably wouldn't have enjoyed. I do believe that they had to happen, for whatever reasons. Like many people I know, I also think that things happen for a reason. What those reasons are, no one can know for sure.
I was the same with my dad. We had our good moments and bad ones too. He passed away in December of 2002 after a 5 month fight with Esophageal and Liver Cancer. 
For more information and pictures of some of the things my team and I did, go to the next page.
Americorps*NCCC
RESIGNATION
I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud
puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks.
......"Tag! You're it."
Copyright ©2000 Royce B. McClure
against the scum sucking bastard who made you sad.
every chance I get.
how much worse it could
be
and
to quit complaining.
I will use little words to explain it to
your dumb ass.
while you pay homage
to
the
porcelain god.
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