Really?

Has it really been almost four months since I have written? Well here is a writing sample that I created. Mama needs a new job and some extra cash...

What Famous Person would you like to go to dinner with and why.

I have always had a unique fascination with Dolly Parton. She is a smart, no nonsense and down to earth woman who has set her goals high and achieved them. Dolly is the famous person I would most like to have dinner with, not because I would like to share a meal with her necessarily, but to get a peek into the personality that makes this interesting and unique person tick. There seems to be an interesting dichotomy between the brashly famous yet intensely private sides of Dolly Parton. I have to admit that I am a bit of a voyeur and want to see into the private life of this very famous person.

Many years ago I had a recurring dream about Dolly. At different times we were in different places but essentially the dream was the same. I was witnessing the private side of Dolly outside of the limelight. Dolly was usually hiding from the paparazzi and hiding out in some cabin in the woods. The main thing that I couldn’t wrap my head around was that the person in my dreams was not the Dolly that we all see. There was no make-up, no hair, no singing. Her voice was different, her face was even different. This was a completely different Dolly! I would awake from these dreams and have a hard time reconciling the Dolly that I thought I knew with the “real” Dolly in my dreams.

There isn’t much that hasn’t been written about Dolly Parton. We all know about her professional career, her humble beginnings and her massive rise to fame and fortune. We know a little bit about her private life – she is devoutly spiritual with a love of god and music and people and has chapels on all of her properties. I have a few questions for Dolly. My first question for Dolly would be how in the world did she ever think a person like herself could make it so far in the world. How did she ever think that she couldn’t make it so far in the world? In a world that seems to value its people as conservative and as compliant and conservative as possible, Dolly does not fit the mold. She never has. If anything she has worked her entire life to create her own mold and wear it with pride. I want to know where that pride and confidence come from and how I can get that pride and confidence too.

Dolly has always said that she was a dreamer. What are her dreams? Has she made her dreams come true? What dreams does she have now that she has seemingly reached the pinnacle of success? What dreams didn’t come true for Dolly? What is her biggest regret? What does she consider her greatest accomplishment? Would she have done anything differently? I want to know about the private side of Dolly Parton.

Of course I couldn’t have dinner with Dolly and not ask her about all of the “pretty bizarre stuff” that she is into as she calls it. I want to know how she felt the first time she had plastic surgery and if she was happy with the results. Does she still get work done as they say? Are any or all of those rumors true about her having an open marriage and what famous lovers has she had? What is really behind that nearly forty year marriage to the secretive Carl Dean?

I want to have dinner with Dolly Parton. She has been my idol since I was thirteen years old. I do not want to be a tabloid investigator who delves into all the salacious details of her life, but I do want to know the real person. I want to look into her eyes and learn the truth of her life. I want to hear her magical laugh. I also want to see what she eats when nobody is looking!