** From now on, if you even breathe the word "fu-bling" you'll be off all my lists **

The literary character I perhaps identify most closely with is Gollum from The Lord of the Rings. There are two very different sides to me. There is a public, sweet, charming and completely innocent side to me. Then there is the ruthless, calculating, not so innocent side to me. While the one side gets completely bottled up in public, I give it a chance to breathe on here. I believe that if I were female that side would be very much like Catherine Trammel.

I was married right out of college and then divorced before I was 30. I feel I utterly wasted those years of my life for someone who could so easily toss me aside (for my best friend, no less). That said, I'm glad she did. I am happily married now and live just north of Denver in a nice community with her and her two twin sons.

I am an avid, avid sports fan. I'll watch paper cup stacking if that's the only competition on t.v. I keep in relatively good shape but long for the days of my youth when I could run all day and not hurt the next day let alone the next week.

I am extremely intelligent. I used to think it was a curse and tried to dumb things down. Now I am proud of it, but I don't think it makes me any better a person than other people. Some people can run faster, jump higher, are better public speakers, are more beautiful...whatever else, but that doesn't make them better people. Those are all God-given talents that they should be proud of and embrace, but it doesn't make them a better person.