I am taking off for Los Angeles to speak for the first time at Blog World, a humongous conference on…blogging.  I am speaking at 4pm on Friday. My topic title is: The Napkin Dad Explains: Six Stop Signs on Creativity Road.  Wish me luck!

I was raised in California. First on the beach in Del Mar, near San Diego, then up in Los Angeles.  I love LA.  The conference will be downtown and we lived at the beach but we used to drive in a number of times a week so my sister and I could swim with our swim team at the LA Athletic Club.  Bad pollution made breathing hard but besides that I loved it.

I remember the daughter of a movie star was in our swim team, she had red hair I think and I had a crush on her.  The Rolling Stones had a song out back then called ‘Pretty Ballerina’ maybe? Anyway, they had some song that was the song I attached to her. I still think of her whenever I hear that song.

I now live in Oklahoma, thus I can make fun of both states in my drawing today. I love Oklahoma. I haven’t met a daughter of a movie star here, that I know of. But I love it nonetheless.

If you are going to Blog World, make sure to find me and say hi. And of course, COME TO MY PRESENTATION!

Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Quote by Will Rogers, 1879-1935, American humorist and movie star from OKLAHOMA.