I just wrote a book called "The Ride of Our Lives - Roadside Lessons of an American Family" which means that I'm an author, although Kerry insists on calling me an "authoress."

The author title came late in life because the reason to write a book came late in life. Out of the blue, I decided to take my elderly/crazy parents on a month-long RV trip. The home videos from that journey were turned into a four-part Today show series (my main job - feature reporter NBC News- twenty-five years and counting) and that led to an offer to write a book.

I did.

Ballantine/Random House is the publisher.

Disney bought the movie rights.

Ernest Borgnine will play me.

That last line was a joke. Ernest Borgnine will play Kerry.

That was a joke too.

Now we're even on the "authoress" slam.

I sired Matt, Megan, Kerry and Brendan. Oh, and a wolf pup somewhere near Ely. Minnesota. It was cold. I was lonely. Life is gray. Or is it grey? I think you can use either one which proves that life really is gray. Or grey.

Cathy is my wife. We met in seventh grade. She was my teacher. Actually, she wasn't my teacher but she was at least a foot taller than me at the time. Let's hear it for human growth hormones. Or late bloomers. That's what I am...a late bloomer. I made my hockey debut as a sixteen-year-old and then played at Providence College for a young coach named Lou Lamoriello. He went on to win three Stanley Cups as the GM of the New Jersey Devils. I got into TV at the age of thirty, turning a home movie-making hobby into a job. NBC News hired me a year and a half later and off I went to work for Today. At the age of fifty -eight I became a first time author. Perhaps I will someday become an astronaut. Or a Huguenot. I don't know what a Huguenot is because I'm a dumb-ass when it comes to academics. Five years in high school. Less than 800-combined on the SAT's. That's the truth.

And that's enough about me.