Bob Bitchin
Character is Not Inherited, It is Earned The reality of my world was shaken the other day when I got what I considered to be a really weird request from one of my readers. Not to go into a long dissertation on what was happening in his life, but in a nutshell, his under-aged teenage daughter had run off, and she was taking him to court saying he was an unfit parent because he wanted to live on a boat! He wanted me to write a letter to the court saying he wasn’t weird. Wasn’t weird! Hell, as far as I am concerned people who don’t want to live on boats are weird! After living aboard for 30 years, I found myself without a boat and moved onto land. It has been two years now since I lived aboard Lost Soul. Every day that I come into the office, I listen to Edditer Sue and Production Manager Robin, who both still live aboard, and get about 179
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