Michael D. Beil

When my students, high school freshmen in New York City, learn that I grew up in a town with a population of 1200, their first reaction is always the same:
 
“Small towns are so boringggg.”
“There’s nothing to do.” 
“Everybody knows everything about you.”
 
That last one always makes me laugh.  The same kids who complain about everyone knowing all their secrets share their deepest secrets with THE WORLD on Facebook, on a daily basis.  But I digress. 
 
Certainly there are people in small towns who are bored, and who have “nothing to do,” but that wasn’t my experience -- ever. I am, and always have been, from the “Only Boring People Are Bored” school of thought, and worked hard as a… Keep Reading