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“Your job is being outsourced.” - American Express, 3 months after being hired by them
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About twenty years ago, I went to an old soda shop style restaurant in downtown Burlington named Zack's. Their main fare was hot dogs and Cokes in ten ounce glass…
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I was born in America. I was raised in America. I possess a distinctly American belief system. Therefore I'm a Native American by all sense of the term, right? Then…
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I've got an idea for a game show, and only in America, the land of the TV zombies, could this work. I call it "Old Clothing Roulette."
Contestants would…
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I was talking with some friends last night and the topic turned to the best water we'd ever had. One guy said he took a drink out of a fountain…
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That pretty much sums up the thought patterns of a typical American man. Oh sure, there are males who think differently, but this is what American MEN think about 90%…
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Men can be defined in more ways than having a penis. We like our sports, whether we're playing them or watching them. We fart in our sleep even if we…
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The Original Rudolph BookletThe song of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer dates from 1939, when the Chicago-based Montgomery Ward company asked one of their copywriters to come up with a Christmas…
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It's the new millennium and has been for quite a few years. The definition of what constitutes a man is being rewritten on a daily basis. Not only is he…
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I've written about how our nation's spelling acuities have decreased since the advent of the internet. As a people, we spell bad. Real bad. But something that often…
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Written by Ross Cavins
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007 04:41 |
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 Ross Cavins graduated with a BS in Computer Science from UNC
Greensboro. He currently works as a freelance website designer and
internet programmer and lives in the North Carolina Piedmont.
Two divorces and a mid-life crisis pushed him to pursue his life-long
dream of writing a book. This is as close as it gets for now. His
primary goal is to one day visit a bookstore and hear, "Hey, is this
you?" instead of, "Hey, you gonna pay for that?"
His work has appeared in Swill Magazine, Hiss Quarterly, USA Deep South,
Hack Writers, Dead Mule, and elsewhere. He's much funnier in person.
And more importantly, he is married to the hottest and most intelligent woman in the world.
He has been published at:
Seriously ...
 I'm an aspiring writer who's slowly gathering steam and as I've developed my style, I've found myself drawn to the likes of Elmore Leonard, Nelson DeMille, Pat Conroy and James Lee Burke amongst others. They are masters of the written word.
I draw from many influences but I recently discovered that most of my inspiration comes from being Southern. It was a journey to realize just how deep my roots spread but it was a journey worth taking.
The acknowledgement that I am indeed a Southern Writer was a big surprise to me. I hadn't fully comprehended the gestalt of it all until I decided to write what came natural. Then the revelation appeared.
You have to write what you know ... and what I know about is being Southern.
Growing up, I had shunned the South even to the point of erasing my Southern drawl. Even to this day, it only emerges after a few strong drinks.
But now, I fully embrace my Southern heritage. We are a truly unique culture of geniality and hospitality and I believe we have an understanding of life that no one else can match.
It really is amazing how many similar experiences we all have. That's
what I aim for in my writing, to expose those little things on the edge of our
consciousness that we never really give a second thought to, and
when you learn that someone has experienced the same thing, it takes on
a new meaning for you. It forces you to stop and smell the roses, in a
way.
I love to make people laugh with my writing but more importantly, I love to make people smile.
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