David Hardin:
CLASS OF 1957
Woodward High SchoolClass of 1957
Cincinnati, OH
Woodward High SchoolClass of 1957
Cincinnati, OH
New Woodward High School (Bond Hill)Class of 1957
Cincinnati, OH
David's Story
Way out here at the tail-end of my life it is hard to look back and see the person I was when I last saw any of my classmates. It¿s so far back that I have to squint; even then my view us distorted by the context lens of everything that has happened since.
At 70 I am a writer and have been for some time now ¿ actually for about 50 of my 70 years. No, I am not a novelist. I do have several started, but I doubt that I will ever finish them. I am too busy writing everything else. I have been involved in marketing for more than half my life. Writers better have a ¿day job¿ or learn to live on Ramen noodles. Aside from a 17 stretch, when I worked for Procter & Gamble (To this day I don¿t know why they hired me!), I have pretty much done my own thing and gotten away with it.
I discovered the Internet in the late 80s and by the mid 90s was working as a ghostwriter for many of the so-called marketing GURUs, most of whom couldn¿...Expand for more
t string six words together to form a sentence. That bothered me. I thought back to my early days when Miss Compton shook her head and sadly informed me that I would never be a writer because I couldn¿t learn to parse a sentence. I STILL can¿t parse a sentence, nor do I want to. I finally realized that most people think they can¿t write because they also have a Miss Compton somewhere in their past.
I started working with some of these non-writers and soon found out that I could teach them to write by first telling them to, ¿Forget everything you ever learned in English class,¿ and then pointing them in the right direction. I also found that I really enjoyed teaching. That¿s what I am doing now. I coach people on every continent and love every minute of it!
So, the guy who may still hold the record for the most days skipped has come full circle. I never miss a day of school now. I have finally found a reason to show up.
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