What I Want to be When I grow Up

"What I want to be when I grow up" today is definitely not "what I want to be when I grow up" 50 years ago.....
Back then, it was about being the smartest, prettiest, most popular, best dressed person you knew with the same kind of smart, pretty, popular and well dressed group of friends and having a family with all those same qualifications. And choosing a vocation in life that allowed you to be and have a continuous stream of smart, pretty, popular and well dressed. Thank God(really..thank you Lord) that He never handed out smart, pretty,popular and well dressed to me then and intervened when it appeared a few of those things might have started to come around. It appears He was giving me a reality check by having the life I have had, so NOW I can say with all honesty what I want to be when I grow up....

I WANT TO BE GARRISON KEILLOR!!!!!

I want my sense of humor to stay in the room for 2 hours...after I leave. I want to make people feel so good about themselves that they smile sweetly and cherish the potshots I take at their lifestyles and beliefs. I want to write books that aren't necessarily page turners, but the tales they tell can be re-run as snippets in millions of heads when needed. I want to portray the frailty of human spirit, and the strength of it's resolve. I want to tell stories to people who can vividly see the beloved characters and flesh out their personalities with my flavorful descriptions. And of course, I want to channel Ben Franklin...just in case I run out of Garrison Keillor.