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FRED’S CORNER

Fred Peters

FRED SPEAKS

This year is the second in what I consider my second life. For a lot of years (admittedly spent in the Midwest of this Grand country) I was going out the “American Way”. I went to college, tried to get myself a good job in Corporate America, and even considered (gasp!) starting a family with a wonderful and sensible choice of a woman for a wife.

And then I came to my senses.

You see, I am one of those people who need to perform in front of people and entertain them. If the party I am with happens to meet in a bar with a karaoke show, guess who is the first one on stage to sing the worst renditions of the best songs? If there is a stage with a microphone at the corporate function, guess who gets up there uninvited for some impromptu stand-up (as long as the boss isn’t there, but even then… maybe)? If there are pictures being taken at the same function, I am the first one to make a funny face during a picture. I’m only slightly devastated if the performance doesn’t draw rave reviews, because I know that, dammit, I had to do it and I did. Besides, there is that inevitable moment, months down the line, when someone asks, “Remember when Fred…?”. Read more