I'm as Proud as Punch

Every day I stood before 20 to 30 kids and made up a story off the top of my head. Later, when I would come into the house after day of rounding up cattle on my pretend horse, I would share my incredible experiences with my mother. Instead of telling me to quit lying, she would smile and say that maybe I would be a writer one day. A few months earlier, I had taken Elizabeth's advice and written and submitted a short humorous story for an international horse publication. As time passed, I forgot about it and began writing articles and short stories to submit to other horse magazines. And then came that morning when I sat at his computer and learned that I had actually sold