Richard Smith:  

As I have always been, I am a very private person. A little shy. Unlike my childhood, I live well and take care of myself physically. Other than that, very little to report here. School For the most part, school was a miserable time for me. I connected on any real level with a handful of people. I know that sounds cold, but I think if I look back and think about it...I can see no other real honest answer there. I will admit that there are people and times there that I look back at with a smile. I think you know who you are. My favorite courses were usually music or history/POD. I think part of my problem with school was not so much other people, but myself. I was awkward. I had a bad attitude about being born and raised in a town with very little to do. I felt, with the exception of a few situations, intellectually unchallenged. I knew it back then, but am only coming to grips with the fact that I was a weird kid. I am a weird adult too, but in adult-life those things are viewed as a little more interesting and textured. I wish there were ways I could go back and give myself advice, but in reality, my brain just was never wired in a way that the advice would be taken. My brain was always on the larger picture, fu...Expand for more