Origins

So, I guess I should cover the origins of my nickname. In first grade we had weekly writing sessions where we would create short stories, our teachers would edit them, and then we would illustrate the books. I put out some high quality stuff.

Luckily, we never had writing time extended by four hours. Nonetheless, we would right our little fingers off with all the mind numbing stories we could about topics like "Dude", "Soccer", and "My Best Friend Colin", all actual titles of mine by the way. My mother and sisters in law discovered these epic titles while preparing for my high school graduation party. They became a last minute contribution to my "shrine of awesomeness".

One particular story was entitled A Christmas Story. The story followed a similar line as the popular Dickens story, and by similar I mean it was plagerized exactly, except that the Scrooge like character said "Humrat" instead of "Humbug" and Tiny Tim became Tiny David. God, I am clever. Well, needless to say these stories and this one in particular entertained my family. I was quickly known as Tiny David from then on.

It is probably very fitting. I have never been a menacing or large fellow. My personality is probably more jolley than scroogelike, and I try to think of myself as just another person in this big old world. Someday, when this blog becomes an Oscar winning feature film known as "Tiny David's Big Adventure" I will be thankful my family dug up those classic literary works of art.