Excerpt: Walking Tall

Excerpt: Walking Tall

Guatemala’s Forgotten Children

Posted on by Clay Rivers
Image from http://www.showthestory.com/2012/06/01/god-bless-children-orphanage-guatemala-city/

The most challenging thing about being Donald Duck was that it was the only costume people my height were approved to do. Knowing there was no variety costumes worn and that everyday neverending throngs of adoring fans awaited their favorite Duck made it hard for me to go in and face the day. On many a day.

Excerpt: Walking Tall

The Novelty Effect (or Little People, Big Problems)

Posted on by Clay Rivers

Everybody’s got something that they simply can not put up with.

Some people can’t ride elevators. A friend of mine will visit anyone in the hospital and traverse numerous stairwells to visit the bedridden, as long as they’re on a single digit floor. If you’re on your death-bed in a hospital above the ninth floor, you’d better make sure you’re all prayed up and have dispensed your last goodbye to that particular angel of mercy because she’s not taking an elevator or climbing up ten flights of stairs to wish you auf wieder-bye-bye.