Journal of an Average American

<i>I was born late and have been slow ever since.<br>I was supposed to be born in April but I arrived on June 19. <br>Explaining my late arrival the doctor said 'Somebody made a mistake'and I took offense to that.</i><p>-Joe Perry<p>Like life Joe Perry's stories are a mixture of the sometimes humorous and sometimes serious. They all take place around the same time period as <i>Forrest Gump</i> (but without all that emphasis on running). And like Forrest the author himself is an average person who has lived a life that is anything but. During his years of military service he was a messenger for President Lyndon Baines Johnson. During his years of spiritual service as a minister he was blessed to be called to as a messenger for the King of Kings and Lord of Lords on a higher plane.<p><i>Journal of an Average American</i> started out as Joe's private journal but it quickly grew into a book of introspection punctuated with philosophy poetry sermons articles laments and history. Throughout it celebrates average people as its main characters and source of all knowledge insight and humor.<p> As a common person writing about common people and their common experiences Joe Perry was surprised to come to the epiphany that people and their experiences are really very <i>uncommon</i> after all.