Growing up as a child in the great city of Chicago the highlight of my day was coming home after school and watching cartoons. The bane of my existence was when it was time for my mother to watch her “Stories” i e, The Soaps. I could never understand what she saw in those things. Then after watching she had to get on the phone and tell her friends what they missed. If I happened to walk in on the conversation I’d think she was talking about real people! “Girl they were arguing and the car skidded off the road. The ambulance rushed them to the hospital Mike is in a coma. I sure hope he makes it”
Then one day many years later I was on the golf course with a friend when he suddenly looked at his watch and declared,”Man I gotta get outta here! Erica Kane comes on in twenty minutes!” What?! Erica who? “I’ll take you home after AMC goes off.”
Thus began my involvement with soaps. Oh yeah I got hooked on Erica Kane too. so much so that she became a very popular element in my stand up act and then, Thanks to an appearance on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, my own nationally syndicated radio feature.
I had become enamored with the art of story telling through interesting characters which is the hall mark of Daytime drama. And I was able to access the gift of self expression through what my Third grade Teacher, Ms Carruthers, taught me: Tell the story in your own words.
So you see I have many reasons to love the soaps: stories well told, wonderful characters, wonderful acting and the best reason of all, Mrs Mary Sanders, My Mom.˜˜˜˜˜˜