Phillip Ohnemus:  

Life It was requested, so it is written. Life, as any post college grad should agree has been very kind to me. What I have found is love, success, and my own home. Though, I must admit, I am still begging for a dog. But, seems to me my wife, Amanda, is doing good to deprive me of said beast until we are properly prepared to house my little mongrel. I spend 40+ hours a week reporting on the lives, and events, that make central Alabama what it is... you may decide for yourself, what exactly central Alabama is. I imagine depending on the story that your opinion is constantly on the slide... As a journalist I've learned to have no opinion, and just argue the point from every side. You'd be surprised on just how satisfying this can be. At home is a different story! Need evidence, scroll up and reread that line about said dog. Though my wife takes good care of me, I find that in much of our free time, that childish nature I buried away for so long has a tendency to erupt without much notice. For this I apologize to poor Amanda... but even though 90-percent of the time it annoys the wee out of her, I think in many ways she looks forward to the spontaneity that oozes from her Husband. Life as a home owner is much the same as anywhere else. Some neighbors are really cool, the kind you can sit around with and talk about anything! Though, for some reason, and not in anyway that I can accept responsibility, we seem to spend the majority of the time staring at the grass or newly planted flowers and discuss the issues of fertilization, verses that bastard down the street who just got a new lawn for free. It's funny how the conversations we have with our friends mature, or in many cases mutate into the seeds of what I once considered the boring drabble of "old people." Being that I am forced to write for living, as I am a reporter (If you missed that little nugget please scroll up), I find that I am slacking off in my pursuit of the perfect fiction. You see there was a time in my life that I longed to find a creative outlet through the publication of poems, short stories, a novel, and maybe a screenplay or two. How I came to journalism instead... who knows? But I had to pick a major, and Mass Communications didn't look all that hard. However those who knew me way back then will be relieved to learn that my wife and I are working to develop a series of children’s books. They are centered around a dog... but that is all I will say on the matter. My poetry has grown more hurried and less insightful, but on the bright side isn't so centered in the obscure and dark realm of misery. That may be attributed to my happiness in how life has turned out for me. I have a degree, a career, and wife. It's almost perfect, minus a dog. For details please scroll up. So that's me in a nutshell. There's plenty more to say, but if I did... then you'd have no need to ever look me up, or bother talking to me at the reunions. So for now I bid you ado, and hope all who read this have found the happiness I am so blessed (That's kind of religious huh?) to enjoy. School Biggest Crush? Isn't that gossip? Funny, Why do you ask? Certainly I wouldn't post it here for the world to see. Silly Website. Which teacher inspired me most? I was very lucky. I had several. Mrs. Black- God rest her soul. The most caring and gentle person I have ever known. She taught me more than Algebra, She taught me to tackle life, and it's cur...Expand for more