Submitted for Your Approval

[DanielBrenton]

I joined three ago, and so I'm "fashionably late" in introducing myself.

My blog I think sums me up pretty well, so let me crib something from my "About All This" page. While I was beginning to organize my site, I waffled on whether I actually needed an "About Me" page. After all, it's pretty much all about me anyway.

So, I conceded to a "twenty questions" version of an introduction (they do it in magazines, so why not here?)

• Name: Daniel L. Brenton
• Age: Let's just say I was born in the last century. (The latter half, at least.)
• Place of Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada. I like this city. If it weren't for the drivers I'd love this city.
• Marital Status: (You know, that's not one of those questions you're legally able to ask in a job interview.) Married. My first, her last. All right, my last, too.
• Children: (You're not supposed to ask that one either.)
• Originally From: Huntington, Indiana. About 40 miles and 50 years south of Fort Wayne.
• Hobbies: HA HA Ha ha (*snort*, *chuckle*).
• Employer: I work for a government sub-contractor. That's all you're going to get. (Kin you say "dooce"? ... I knew you could.)
• Prefer Cats or Dogs: Cats, yes. I'm a writer, so I'm supposed to have a cat. I promise I won't bore you with stories about her.
• Since You're a Writer, Are You Alcoholic? That's the tradition, isn't it? No, I hardly ever drink, period.
• Race: Can't you tell from the picture? (Actually, I have a tiny bit of American Indian blood on my mother's side, from the Miami tribe, which used to dwell in the northwestern area of what is now Indiana. I have no idea why the name wound up attached to Florida. (Seriously. I have a bit of an epicanthic fold in my eyelids to prove it.) Otherwise, I think I'm basically a White Anglo-Saxon Mutt.)

Ehhh ... that's enough questions.

Seriously (or at least less flippantly), I think my blog post "Submitted for Your Approval" sums me up pretty well.

Even less flippantly, I have one more blog, devoted exclusively to messages of gratitude, GratefulNotes: Moments in the Deeper Power of Gratitude.

That's me, in a nutshell. A big nutshell, yes, but a nutshell nonetheless.

(Is this the longest intro you've had so far?)

I'd especially like to thank the Pavlinas for inviting me to this party, and I wish all of you ... all the best.