We look alot alike,don't you think?

Anyway, This page is supposed

to be about me,where I came from,where I'm going(I don't even know that!) and just a teeny tiny bit about who I am.(I haven't got a clue on that one either!)

I hate to dissapoint some of you but I really have to be honest when I say that country music was not my calling when I was a kid. I wasn't one of those people that sat around dreaming about playing to sold out crowds,worshiping Patsy Cline,and telling everyone that I have been singled out by god for some higher purpose. That I knew even before I was born I was one day going to stand on the stage of the grand ol opry and sing with the un-trained perfect pitch voice that god had given me.

No, dear friends(you are my friends,right? ok, just checking),

When I was growing up I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do with my life. Even when I was a teeneager I didn't know what to do with my life.

The only thing I can tell you about how I got into singing was

when I was a baby I was diagnosed with asthma. I had to spend a few days in the Hospital in an oxygen tent for asthmatic bronchitis. When I got into around second grade,my asthma was starting to get worse and weakening my lungs and my mom

was trying to find all kinds of ways to make my lungs stronger.

I got the idea to sing when I was at home watching a baseball game.(Cubs V. Cardinals,Cardinals won,7-0) At the beginning of the game,this 9 year old girl came out and sang the national anthem. I thought since she could sing and she wasn't that much older than me maybe I could sing too.

One day we were in the car and my grandma started singing like she always does and I thought of the girl at the baseball game.

So, for the first time in my life,this scrawny,asthmatic genius of a kid was going to open her mouth and sing the national anthem she had heard on television.

I didn't even get the first verse out of my mouth when my grandma called me tone deaf and said I couldn't carry I tune in a bucket.

Great beginning,huh?

I can laugh about it now but at the time it kind of upset me and gave me a "well, Ill show her" feeling that I still carry to this day.

Well, anyway, my mom happened to mention this little performance to my doctor and he thought it was a good idea that I keep it up and it would really help my lungs.

And so started an endless chain of church choirs,music classes,

school choirs,school plays,and all things musical.

And the world has been paying the price ever since! *LOL*