Author’s Note: As an avid writer of tales and tidbits, religion, Hollywood, politics, life and love, I’d like to think if my dad, a contributor to this page, were here to write one more article about his life, it would go something like this:

I was born Douglass Lester Leaman on Nov. 29, 1936. I came into this world with a vengeance, so much so that my mother almost birthed me in the car. I should have known from my birth story that I would make a lasting impression in this world.