This is another installment of the 100 Facts about me. This week there is an actual real prize for guessing which fact is not true -- a Running With Blue Sponge t-shirt. Below are 11 "facts" listed that pertain to me, but only 10 are true. Can you guess which one is a lie? Next Monday, I'll post 10 more facts and one non-fact next and disclose which one of the items was false. If more than one person guesses the lie correctly, there will be a random prize drawing for the t-shirt among the correct guesses. If nobody guesses correctly, then that will be just sad. Each person may only make one guess. Leave a comment or send an e-mail to
The false item from last week was #9. I never won $5,000 in any lottery game. The other 10 items I listed were true.
Here's the fourth list of 10 facts and one non-fact:
1. I've had pet gerbils.
2. I took tap dancing lessons, and danced in front of hundreds of people.
3. I've written a country music song.
4. Shane and I own about 5 acres of land in Maine, where we plan to eventually build a house and retire.
5. I was briefly in the Barry Levinson movie Diner, filmed in Baltimore.
6. I have skied at ski resorts in Maine, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and New Mexico.
7. The first real concert I ever saw was REO Speedwagon, and I had won the tickets from a radio station. Survivor was the opening act.
8. I ran my first marathon in 1998 to raise money for AIDS charities and received just under $4,000 in contributions.
9. I did an internship during my last semester in college with the Baltimore News American and I wrote two front-page stories. The paper went out of business shortly thereafter.
10. I helped digitize maps used in the first Gulf War.
11. I buried a man in a cemetery while his young son watched.
