OK! So we have a BIG book signing coming up!! Why am I not rolling over and over with joy? If it were a matter of backing out of it,..I could just say no and that would be the end of it.

I REALLY do enjoy book signings!! I really do appreciate folks coming up to me and asking me for an autograph, or asking me if I plan to write anything under my own name again. I enjoy speaking in college classes and I enjoy the newspaper articles. I'd be a fool,..no--a "TOM fool" to say that I don't enjoy the attention. I guess that in certain circles,..my name is known around here,..but not to the point that it is annoying or repulsive as it was almost twenty five years ago!!

I have "sweetened my presentation,"..will not wear blue jeans and an old sweatshirt,...will smile at everyone and speak to everyone.....nicely,..refrain from asking the mayor's wife if she remembers the date of her first.."bush-colt,"..will smile some more and not have licorice or spinach implanted in the cracks of my teeth,...and behave myself in general!!

In the back of my mind,..I still hear the words to that little song,

"I am not a famous person,
I never wanted to be!
I'd rather ride my bike!
I'd rather climb a tree!"

I am not FAMOUS,..just slightly noticed in certain circles.