Buzzard, Wh

WH Buzzard is not only the author's pen name, it's also a nickname. The joke in those high school days was that he was so skinny, he couldn't be seen when he turned sideways. All the teasing was offered in good fun, though, and one day a chance remark from an unlikely source began a lifelong passion.

His eleventh grade speech teacher, at first sight a cranky older lady, must have thought the boy in back of her room who was so reluctant when called upon to get up before the class, needed an ego boast. Whatever her rational, she informed her students that, after reading his homework assignmen...