Nice to Meet Y'all!

After many years I’m finally coming out of the imagination into reality!

Let me introduce myself. My name is Cochran Cornell. People refer to me as cantankerous, but I cannot understand why. I’m not difficult or irritating! How can I be considered mean-spirited? Why, I’m most often like Grover---lovable, sweet, kind! Yet I’ve heard rumors through the years that I have a difficult and contrary disposition, unwilling to cooperate in any reasonable situation! How dare they talk about me this way?!??! Cantankerous, my eye!

I’m the creation of Carolyn, you might know. She recognizes the beauty of my golden-bronze color, my iridescent wings, even though I’m so hated by most humankind that they are energized by trying to splat on their walls! Oh, but I’m too swift for them! You see, I’m a cockroach, one of the German kind. Oh, quit cringing! Beauty like mine can be seen nowhere else in the animal kingdom. I’m not like those ugly black creatures I disenfranchise as my cousins. Ugh!

Enough, enough. Carolyn is gracious enough to introduce me to the public for the first time on the Beanery Writer’s Group blog. I trust you know about this blog, as you are reading it about now.

If you must know, Carolyn is sooo eccentric. She tries to be a writer, but writers must be storytellers. I’m a better storyteller. And oh, do I have stories to tell! I’ll begin this week, but you must understand something about me. You writers, you take the easy road, you use that newfangled electronic gizmo. But I cannot record my stories like my role model did, on a keyboard, even on the computer keyboard that is so much improved over the typewriter keyboard. I’m just not patient enough. And I’m electronically challenged.