If you are a superintendent, principal, teacher, board member or parent at a school or if you run or operate a business (CFO, CEO, etc) in or near the Baltimore, MD area I have a proposal for you. It is ONLY good for the dates of May 13 and 14th. I will be in NJ May 11 and 12. I will be in Batimore for the H.H. Backer Pet Trade Expo May 15-18, but we have NOTHING planned for the 13th and/or the 14th. I have been promised a few hours at Walter Reed on the 14th, but can't seem to be able to get there. HOWEVER, if you have a show, visit, or performance that you would like to host - it could happen. We are fully willing and able to come to you and do an hour show and/or performance for a company or school, church, or media - if you have something else in mind let my agent know so we can see if that would benefit the two of us. It would be at NO CHARGE professionally, but I would have to ask that you bring me (and Faith) from the NJ area to Baltimore, and keep us in a nice hotel (like a Holiday Inn Express). So, the daily fee would be negated completely if you agreed to be the person(s) to bring us out from the NJ area to Baltimore. Otherwise I will be flying back to Oklahoma City and then back out a day or so later. It would make so much more sense to stay out on the East Coast. Let me know if you can help - Faith (I know, because she tells me these things) would prefer to stay out rather than flying back and forth. We may ask that we be allowed to sell photographs of Faith for donation purposes - this year the donations are going to Operation Iraqi Children. Thanks so much! Mike can be reached at (571) 215-1147

I was on the late night chat radio program today with host Keith Perron. It will air 4/23. He'll give me the call numbers for the radio program and I'll be sure to give a big shout out to you all in Hong Kong and neighboring Taiwan. I was telling Keith that Faith is at least 1/2 Chinese because her mother is a Chow-Chow. She was a big, black, hairy dog and looks nothing like Faith, but Faith does have a spotted purple and pink tongue! We really enjoyed the interview. Keith teased me off the air and asked if Faith could bark for the listeners. I could have pinched her I suppose, but we let her just listen to us talking as if we were having our morning coffee. Thanks Keith for your love of animals (and for rescuing Ginger). She is a very pretty girl indeed. Remember if you want to buy one of my books it is cheaper to go through the publisher. I still need a publisher in China to translate the books in to Chinese - so anyone who is interested can write to me. Also, if anyone is interested in submitting a movie proposal please do. We would love to have Faith in movies or commericals - it would do so much in terms of helping others understand that having a disability doesn't have to stop someone from achieving every set goal in life! Don't worry about looking perfect, just do the dance! I've added a link to my publisher if you're interested in ordering a book - and they are available on Amazon too. Titles: With a Little Faith (2nd Ed.) and Faith Alone: Stories of an Amazing Dog. Thanks.

We were interviewed this week by a newspaper in Chile, another in Argentina, and we will be interviewed tomorrow for a group in China. I'm doing a chat with them. I'll give you details as they come in. Another Chinese media group contacted me too. We'll be in a kids magazine soon. Faith is just very very popular overseas right now. I know it has to be that smile....and probably the fact that she walks upright, LOL.

This may is giong to be VERY busy for Faith and I. Looks like we'll be going to Miami to do a show with the great Latio network company Univision. We'll fly to Jersey to visit a community college, truck over to DC to see the soldiers at Walter Reed again, meet a thousand people at the memorials and monuments...then to Baltimore to do a really really big trade show for pet products. After the 18th we fly to Columbus to do a pick up show that we missed due to weather - another elementary school. Love that! Then on the 29th we're in Spokane! Wow...oh, I forgot Turkey. We'll be rescheduling for the Turkish trip around the 7th...Happy Birthday to Laura. Most kids don't get a Middle Eastern flight and TV show for their 19th. She went on tour last year when she turned 18 with Ozzfest. She's got spunk. When I have more photos I'll upload them.

Oh, St. Louis felt it! Gary Sinise and I were in the same place at the same time, and WHAM...earthquake! There were even a few aftershocks as well, trimmers as the ground moved beneath our feet Friday morning. Gary was in town to do a show at Ft. Leonard Wood just outside of St. Louis, and I was at Scott Air Force Base as well as other shows in the surrounding areas. I'm telling you - God Himself has spoken about the two of us ... Nostradamus must be laughing at this very minute. Sinise needs to take this warning to heart - he showed up at the Starbucks I was at and talked to Beverly the Barista I met on Wednesday just two days prior. He showed up at the USO after I did and hugged my lady Marlene! He can't be stalking me like this...word will get out and people will talk! LOL (Actually I think the earthquake had more to do with the underground coal mines and the New Maverick fault, something about it feels eerie and unpredictable. I do hope the people of Missouri aren't hoping to bank on this and begin selling ocean side property.) I do wish to give a big shout out to the USO at Lambert, to the men and women we teased, hugged, kissed, and photographed while Faith was in town. You guys rock. We loved the attention, Faith loved the nap with her good looking PFC. Even if it wasn't her Reuben, he was someones baby boy. Hooah! Gary, we'll always have St. Louis...let the thunder roll, the lightning strike! (Big Smile)