Yes, I know this sounds like I’m fishing for compliments. I know it sounds vain. I know it seems gratuitous.

But that’s not why I’m asking. Really.

In the past nine years on this blog, I have used many words to describe myself.

Words such as dreamer, sensual, artist, sexual, reader, asshole, runner, driven, mentor, Type-A (is that one word or two?), speaker, fearful, thankful, American, blessed, arrogant, traveler, eccentric, singer, temperamental, writer, frail, human, and many more.

But today, I’m looking for one.

To the ones who know me personally, and to the ones who know me only virtually, what one word would you use to describe me.

I realize I’m opening up myself for all sorts of spam, but there is a method to this madness.

To explain now would render this exercise useless.

One word.

Just one word.