Mini Auto Biography

[John Barnett]

I challenge you all to write a mini auto biography about your real personal lives. This is yet another way for us to get to know one another better as well as express our creative art at the same time. Good luck!

[T.J. Barber]

My name is Timothy Barber. I was born on March the twenty eighth at Amory Womens Clinic. I have always been a shy person until one day it got the best of me. I turned from my sweet childish ways and took on the role of a bad-ass when I turned thirteen. I was pulled away from the only place I felt was home and I was not going to let it rule over me. I felt pressured by everyone around me. Being a pastors son is no easy task for anyone, especially someone with my attitude. I lived for many years in regret that I ever volunteered to move to that God forsaken place they had led us. My sister and I constantly fought over everything and my father and I tied up nightly. I could feel the very essence of morality slipping away inside of my soul when I discovered true unadulterated love. I fell in love with the most beautiful woman I had ever met. She turned my life around when she said yes to my marriage proposal and now everything has fallen apart again. She left me for someone else and now she's calling again since that didn't work out. She's lonely and I cannot bring myself to loving her the same again after putting me through the hell she did. Also, I am now being ripped away from the place I regretted moving to that has now become my home.....life is unfair and woe to those who live it....

Tj

[bloodredtears]

Alright, I'll take a stab.

My name is Kristine Ann DeBilzan. I was born in Webster, SD. For those of you who've never been to South Dakota its is only slightly bigger than than the city I spent most of my life in, Bristol. Living in a town with a population of only a little over 400 and graduating in a class of 10 people, including yourself, is quite a challenge.
I never fit in with any group. I liked to do homework and read. Partying wasn't even a part of my vocabulary until after my parents divorced. It all kind of went down hill from there. They split the summer after my sophomore year...I thought of suicide, and that's when I started writing poetry and when I discovered poet club.
Now I'm a sophomore in college. I'm a vocal music education major. I'm no longer depressed, and as a result very rarely write poetry.
I like to read, write, crochet (I can make blankets now), watch movies, sing, hang out and party. That's my life in about as short a biography as I can make it.
Oh yeh...I don't have a boyfriend, have never had a boyfriend, and while I want one, I don't want the trials and tribulations that go along with one. So if anyone knows of someone who wants a relationship that is serious and yet not fully commital give me there number, I'd really like to meet them! (Absolutely shameless plug for the single life)

[ronprice]

I have written a maxi-autobiography of 5 volumes and 1000 pages, but I would not inflict this on my best friends---although I might on people I have never met like all of you....
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Anyway, I'll post the first two or three pages here and call it a mini-autobiography as requested.
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"Not beginning at the Beginning...."

My individual journey from the promised land, from my home in Canada, my home town in Burlington Ontario, from one promised land to another and then another I have written in the form of a 800 page autobiography. It took me twenty years to write this piece and in the pages which follow I have included some of chapter one, the introduction. I hope readers find some pleasure here and there:

Dispositions are plausible responses1 to the circumstances individual Baha'is found themselves in and they led, in toto and inter alia, to the gradual emergence from obscurity of their religion over these four epochs. The story here is partly of this emergence and partly it is myself telling my own life-story, as Nietzsche writes in his life story, in his famous autobiographical pages of Ecce Homo.2 For I have gone on writing for years, perhaps as much as two decades now, in relative obscurity doing what I think is right. -Ron Price with thanks to 1Joseph Kling, "Narratives of Possibility: Social Movements, Collective Stories and Dilemmas of Practice," 1995, Internet; and F. Nietzsche in Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood, Adriana Cavarero, Routledge, NY, 2000, p.85.
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I am intentionally not going to begin at the beginning. Most autobiographies that I have examined thus far seem to be sequential exercises beginning with the author's first memories and proceeding logically until the last syllable of their recorded time, their allotment on earth, at least up to the time of the writing of their said autobiography. This is not my intention here. Anyway, when does one really begin a journey, a friendship, a love affair? Beginnings are fascinating, misunderstood, enigmatic. I’ve written many poems about various beginnings and the more I write the more elusive they become. But there comes a moment, a point, when we realize that we are already well on the way; we know the journey has definitely started. And as we travel along we mark historical moments which we weave into our narrative. They often change, our view of them that is, as we grow older: these rites de passage, these coming of age moments, these transition periods, these passages, these crises, calamities and victories. Unlike the Roman historians of the republican days who wrote their histories annalistically, that is year by year in sequence, this work is much more varied and informal with a slight tendency to write by plans and epochs. :D__________________________

I frankly do not know how I am going to approach this story, though I have no trouble finding such historical moments and there is always in the background to my life ever-present plans, new beginnings, fresh initiatives, systematic advances, "leaps and thrusts," triumphs and losses, vistas of new horizons and dark clouds. Thinking seriously about autobiography or, indeed, any intellectual discipline, requires us to acknowledge our ignorance of the subject. This is a prerequisite. Our past, any past, is another country, a place that exists in our imaginations and in those uncertain and often unreliable echoes of our lives that we trace in words, in places and in things. There is, then, an inscrutability which paradoxically lies at the heart of this work. I return again and again, taking the reader with me, to absences, spaces in my knowledge, my memory, my construction. I recognize that the act of making this my life, into a whole, from the pieces I have left from my past is necessarily a creative one, an act of imagination, what one writer calls "the dialectic between discovery and invention." In the process I transform my history and the history of my times, from something static into something lived. I am not imprisoned in some imagined objectivity; rather, I reenter the moment, the hour, the days and the years and imagine it as something experienced from multiple perspectives, simultaneously acknowledging its erasures and silences. This book compels me to think again about my life and readers to think about theirs.
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That's all folks! If you want to read more stuff go to any search engine and type: Ron Price poetry

[NeverMore]

Well, me, I am NeverMore, known as Joe to many. I also am rather well known as Adsley or Kasteele. I took NeverMore as a name as me being sarcastic as I can get since everything seems to repeat itself in life. Kasteele is a Druid name that is way to hard to explain. Adsly, well in real fact, it is one of the names on my birth certificate. I am one of only six people I know of with the name, one of who is my grandson.

As for the details of who I am. I am a Canadian and very proud of the fact, there is no better country to live in and enjoy the freedoms we enjoy. I am also a poet of very long standing, over 35 years now, pretty much since I fell in love the first time. These days to earn a living, I work in a doughnut shop, Tim Horton's. I work exclusivly nights, because I love the night. What I enjoy the most is walking in the rain with someone special and talking.

When I was much younger I like many was in to drugs and everything else that I could find, although these days, I do not drink or touch drugs, they are a waste of time meant for people that are bored with life, something I will never be.

Love, now there is a word. There is only one constant love in my life. Her name is Melissa and she lives on the other side of the world in Australia. One day, god willing, she will live here and our daughter will be with us. Yes, I have loved others, but none as she and none that carries so strong through time and troubles. I did love once as strong, but lost her to drugs and mental troubles.Only my poetry will explain her.

I believe what makes me strong is the fact that I can write what I feel and share it with others openly. No one can be strong without the ability to love.

I am the person most people in my circle go to with any troubles they have in life. I always seem to be resuing someone from something. The only problem I find to that is that when I have a problem, it gets real lonely.

So there you go, a bit about me.

[DarkVortex]

My name is Nicholas William Chagnon and I am french canadian and was born on September 25, 1987. I was born in Boston Massachusetts, and moved here to Scottsdale, Arizona awhile ago, about 9 years ago. Growing up I've always been a shy kid until freshman year i figured out that life is short and it has to be played and played 110%. Things about me, well there are a lot. Like I said since life is short , "I" like ot live it up, so I try everything!... I play four differnt instruments: clarinet, guitar, violin, and piano. I adore music and listen to all types except for country and some rap, but the rest is great. Since I adore music my friends and I have a breakdancing crew named white Rabbit and we love to dance, or I do for that fact. Im a kind of guy who loves to be around people and friends. I don't drink nor do I smoke which is what I'm proud of. I make movies with friends for school and for fun. I read a lot such as The Divine Comedy, The Cantabary Tales, Paradise Lost/Regained, and many other works by Shakespeare, Dean Koonz, Stephan King, Anne Rice, S.D. Perry, and many many more. I love english classes and everything within it. So to add to that crave I LOVE writting poetry. I started writting poetry about two years ago when I lost the love of my life when she cheated on me. I started to write my poetry in a forum by proboards such like this one by an amazing author named Rainey Moon and I have been writting there ever since. I live with my parents and my little sister, my real father dies in the first Gulf War. Another part of me is that I love the mind. I plan on going to UofA in a year and major in psychology. To conclude this whatever you call it, I am a lovable type of guy, love revolves around my life, since I try to be the great Don Juan Demarco (haha) ... So I shall bid a goodnght and hopefully noone was struck with boredom while reading this and if so I am greatly sorry... I look forward to reading more poetry here and writting more as well.........~Nick