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Exciting Adventure
I ordered some new business cards recently and they arrived in the mail yesterday and they sure brought back memories of long ago. It was in February, 1961 in Battle Creek, Michigan and I’d given up alcohol and purchased an old Underwood Typewriter. I was locked into a job with the railroad investigating tragedies and we had four children and my life was not going the way I wanted it to. I ordered a box of business cards that said, “Art Fettig, Freelance Writer.”
We had a huge house and I went up in the attic and moved some stuff around and set up my office. I bought a ream of paper and as someone once wrote, “I leaped on my horse and went off riding off in all directions.” I had no clue where writing might take me but it was simply that at that time I could not, not write. For me writing was a daily survival necessity like food and water. I had the good sense not to quit my day job.
Today, several million words later my book shelf is jammed with the books I have written. To celebrate my 80th birthday, I recently took a course in stand-up comedy and launched a new career portraying “Almost Andy” at the Mayberry Festival and experiencing the joy of doing comedy in the Andy Griffith Theatre, and so my new, four color business cards show me in my seersucker jacket saying “Almost Andy Close enough for most.” I expect that life will offer me another exciting adventure.
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