Meet Sam Strait
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Always be where flip-flops can be worn.
If you could live your life by a single rule, what would it be?
That’s a question I asked myself one summer afternoon while running around my neighborhood in flip-flops. We used to call them thongs when I was a kid, but I think only the Australians call them that now.
I love flip-flops, by the way. I’ve always equated them with being cool, and that’s because my Uncle Mike wore them. For a kid, a firefighting uncle who wore jeans and flip-flops in his off time was the epitome of cool.
Eastern Washington has beautiful summers, but the winters are cold and snowy. Not exactly weather for exposed feet. But if I could live my life in only flip-flops, would I do it?
Would you?
How would that life look? How would you pay for it? Those are the sort of questions that prompt a writer to start making notes and imagining adventures. That led me to create Sam Strait—a thirty-something snowbird who lives by a particular set of rules. They’re supposed to make his life drama free. Unfortunately, things don’t always work out that way for him.
Drop me a line and let me know what your number one rule for life would be. I’d love to hear from you!
- Colin
Have you ever heard a great piece of advice and said to yourself, “Oh, man! That’s good. I should write that down.”
But you don’t write it down because you’re busy, then you forget that great piece of advice by the next day. Sometimes you might remember days or weeks later; other times, it’s just lost forever.