If you would've told ten-year-old Ben Blackwell, daily devoted devourer of the Detroit Free Press, that a mere text message to the music editor of the paper, some 31 years later, would get my own writing into the newspaper...I would have asked you "What's a text message?"
Click the link below to read the whole shebang, I worked very hard on it and am very proud of it and I don't say that too often.
I'm Finding It Easier To Be A Gentleman -OR- Forever The Union