She looked at me for a moment and said, “I don’t know you.” I responded, “I know, but I go to school here, and I need to get my license today. I didn’t think it was a big deal, so I asked the receptionists at the front desk of the register’s office if I could use hers. Next, I set up the appointment to take the driver’s test. We set up the appointment and later wrote it and passed. I walked up and asked if I could write the exam. The Motor Vehicle office was only two blocks away from the school. While there, I felt I should get my license. I will start with how I earned the privilege to drive.īefore the menswear experience, I attempted to go to college to study retail. Being hijacked and how I got my driver’s license. Two things come to mind when I think of that car. With the suit and my shoulder-length black hair, the only thing missing was the Cadillac, the bling and the fedora.Īfter earning enough money, I purchased my first car. Thinking about “the look” causes me to laugh. I added a powder blue shirt and dark blue patent leather shoes with light blue suede tops to complete the look. My very first suit was a cream silk three-piece Nino Cerruti stunner. For two years, I transferred from Moncton to Fredericton to Edmonton, Alberta. In my late teens, I started working for a national menswear chain. In my mid-teens, I left home and headed to North Carolina to find work on a golf course. "But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child - a true self who is waiting." ~ Gloria Steinem I would walk the mile by myself to attend Sunday mornings. When I was eight years old, I started going to church. So you have to start someplace." ~ Robert Duvall "If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. The magazines brought daydream ammunition to a young boy. I had a bundle of magazines under my arms to smuggle into my room. I thought, Better Homes, what does that look like? The top one said, Better Homes and Gardens. Cameron, our neighbour, had put out a bundle of magazines tied together in the criss-cross fashion with jute string. All the neighbours put their trash out for pick up. I landed in a family universe that didn’t seem to be quite the right fit.īut I am very grateful the alternative may have been not being given a chance to live at all. The news explained a lot even to a five year old. After hearing the news, I remember going to my room and doing a happy dance. I will honour my mother and father and respect their history, which they brought to the world of parenting.īeing told at five years of age, I was adopted was cause for my celebrating in some ways. "Know that success and inner peace are your birthrights, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness." ~ Wayne DyerĪs a child, daydreaming would help to take my mind away from what was happening around me. I discovered we are all unique, and we are all the same.īias and opinions aside, we all value the same thing. The hospitality industry has taught me a lot. The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
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