I've learned everyone has life experiences and stories to tell. People older than me, and yes, there are people older than me, they have lived to tell the most amazing of stories. We just need to take time and listen . . . before it's too late . . .

"You were a Tail Gunner in WWII? Met the President? Got your tonsils out at the Dentist and then just took a bus back home? Lost a leg trying to jump on a train?" They may look old and frail to you today . . . but their stories are powerful! More than you can imagine!

Please . . . just listen . . . and then ask questions. They won't give up easily that they were a spy, which is also why they didn't get killed for being a spy. Grandma did burlesque shows? Wait? What do you mean those are all wigs?

Once these people, these wonderful world building people are gone, so are their stories, lost to time. Unless we take a moment out of our busy days to just put our phones away, sit down next to them and try this:

"Tell me something that nobody else knows about you?"

"What was your favorite thing to do growing up?"

"I want more than anything to learn about your life."

I didn't learn until after my father had passed that he did amazing mechanical drawing. I'm talking like perfect mechanical drawing. I found out after he was gone and now I have all of those books he drew in.

My goal with my writing is to not just have my important moments in life just disappear when I do. I'm sharing those most fantastic of moments without someone needing to coax them out of me.

Moments like, poop up my back, being pee'd on in the theater . . . nope, not fetishes . . . just part of fatherhood. Not trying to freak anyone out here, but we are all just inches ahead of Death . . . and he's just waiting for us to trip.

So let's just do our best to make our lives as good as a Benny Hill chase scene for as long as we can . . .