Four Truths and a Lie

I have met Lawrence Eagleburger, Benjamin Chavis Muhammed (former head of the NAACP), Oliver North, Sister Helen Prejean (Author of Dead Man Walking), Pat Buchanan, and P.J. O’Rourke (author of Parliament of Whores and Holidays in Hell, etc.) and have their autographs.

I once almost drowned while swimming just off the Italian Riviera (the Speedo-clad lifeguard was busy flirting with someone on shore and had his back to me during the whole episode).

I used to catch lizards and frogs on a regular basis, and have been bitten by the former on numerous occasions, which hasn't stopped me, or deterred me from picking up snakes, either.

I once attempted to chase Mikhail Gorbachev and his entourage down a hall after he gave a speech at the institute in St. Petersburg where I was studying in the mid-1990s.

I think my evil roommate may never move out of this house.

[Guess which is the untruth, and I'll fess up...]