AlexTheHunn

I sang a lot as a child. That was well before my voice changed of course - long before I had any idea what that even meant. I sang fairly well; I think if I'd had training at it I might have done something with it. I had a good ear and could match pitches. And I could tell that I was singing in the range of women. Although I didn't understand that, thought it was pretty cool. I could sing along with Connie Frances and Brenda Lee. I could be them. Uh-oh, let me explain that last part.... (continue reading)

All that I wrote yesterday about imagination was to say, I had an good, vivid imagination, and I USED it. And even believed it myself. When I started school, I was placed in a private facility. Due to the way my birthday fell, I was always the youngest. These days, I would not have been allowed to start so early. I think that had a major impact on my later since I was mentally smart, but emotionally immature. But that's later. I started kindergarten at 4. I was suddenly around all the other... (continue reading)

A perverse, almost self-defeating love-hate relationship with society has been part and parcel of my life since I was far too young to have any idea of what those words meant. I wanted desperately to fit in and to be liked and yet, I needed to be unique and apart from the crowd. "Normal" was not necessarily a compliment, in my vocabulary, and God forbid I should be "average". I am no psychologist; but I do have half informed ill-conceived notions that I... (continue reading)