Okay, so I was born with this birthmark on my upper lip. I first noticed the thing when I was about 4 and I was jumping on my mom's bed and looking in the mirror at our house in Louisville, Kentucky. I remember that I thought I had been drinking Kool-Aid and couldn't get the stain off my lip. After a while of trying to lick the thing off, I tried to wash it off. Finally, I asked Mom about the Kool-ade and why it wouldn't get off my lip. After she got done laughing she explained that it was a birthmark and wouldn't come off. God put it there she explained.
There it is. It doesn't bother me. Teaching class kids ask me all the time, "What's that thing on your lip?" Or sometimes waiting tables a guest will say, "I use ______ (insert the name of a product) to get rid of those." To which I always reply, "that takes off birthmarks?"
Anyhow, one year in my 20's we got our picture taken for the church directory and they edited the thing out. I thought I looked weird. I figured out it was missing pretty quickly, but it was too late, it was gone.
Fast forward to now. I am going to put my headshot in this proposal.... Will they think it was a birthmark? Gorbechev made a lot of fame with his birthmark after all. Or will they think it is a cold sore that I failed to have edited out? Well, with that consideration my entire thought process changes and I decided to edit the thing out. Most of them will probably reject me anyhow, so they will never meet me in person to discover it was missing to begin with! SO, after the photoshoot with Scott Shrecker (visit scottshcrecker.com if interested) I had him edit the thing out and here's the headshot I'm sending with my proposal:
Soooooo. Does this say "buy my book" or what?
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