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John G

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John loves life and believes challenges are growth opportunities. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Texas Tech, he became a single dad of three daughters. And then? He wrote a triple-award winning parenting book for fathers of daughters. John followed that book with a one-of-a-kind children's book, collaborating with first-graders, released just as he emerged (victoriously) against aggressive cancer. John wrote a book about that too. He is a professional speaker, pianist/composer and can't wait to see what life brings next. He is a master articulator of the human story.

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As a Story Terrace writer, John G interviews customers and turns their life stories into books. Get to know our writer better by reading the autobiographical anecdote below!

ME before MY daughters – Part 1, The Early Years

I grew up in a family of four boys, experiencing broken limbs, stitches, bloody noses, busted lips and broken teeth. I crashed my bicycle many times trying to reproduce the stunts of Evel Knievel. I can tell you from personal experience that it hurts deep inside when you fall off the roof of a house.

I had at least one fight with every kid in the neighborhood close to my age. I accidentally broke windows with baseballs, wiffle-balls and basketballs. I started a few fires that got out of control. I can count at least 4 times I escaped serious danger or death.

I was just a normal boy.

I also did other normal boy things.

I hit home-runs, made impossible hook shots in basketball, and executed perfect twisting flips from the high diving board. I was an all-star in everything.

I was a big fan of “GI-Joe,” so of course I loved waging war. Enemy number one was the glorious vocalist of west Texas, the cicada. I sniped those singing cicadas from the ground below with a BB Gun.

I am ashamed of the slaughter.

I routinely laid waste to red ant beds with smoke bombs, firecrackers, lighter fluid and matches.

Ditto on the shame.

I also was very good at capturing those head-poking ground squirrels in buckets, after flooding their subterranean homes with about 25 gallons of water. Sure, I pissed them off, but I did not take their life.

So, just a little shame.

I made high grades and was considered a model citizen by all teachers. I went to church most Sundays at St. John’s and was convinced that church was named after me. Also, I was obsessed with learning to play the piano at the age of ten, and I still play to this day.

My head was full of dreams during those years. I knew that I could do or be anything I wanted. I also knew that I was immortal.

If a prophet told me, “You will spend most of your life surrounded by girls!” I would have said, “Yuck. Girls are gross. Girls have girl germs.”

And that is what my life was like through the sixth grade.

I was just a normal boy.

Then came grades seven through twelve, and things got really weird.

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