It was back in the day ....

It was back in the day when I realized just how cool I really was. I mean, I was a total geek, pretty goofy, awkward and living a love affair with baseball, thinking that someday I would be a major leaguer and play for the Detroit Tigers. I thought I would be the first player to make 10 million dollars a year because I would be all that. It was 1981 and I was about 10 years old, living in a small town in northern Michigan, Kingsley. I decided that I would explore the world and that’s when I discovered something that totally changed my life.

It was during that fateful tenth summer that things really started coming together. I rode an old beat up yellow Huffy dirt bike and I rode it hard. I rode it through the five acres of maple trees that we lived back in. I banged it into trees, I smashed my hands up until they were bloody and sore. But I had a great time riding and playing hard.