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I am so grateful that I am a writer and not a public speaker. I feel like speeches lack the spontaneity of conversation, yet I had a speech performed on the fly. It leaves me in an awkward position whenever I have to speak publicly. I don’t want to have a canned speech AND I don’t want to be unprepared. It feels like a losing proposition every time.

In the end, I read from a paper and do my best to keep it real, but I know that my public speaking has been nominal at best. A horrid cross between the kind of stuff you see in a lay-lead church and an elementary school auditorium.

I’ll leave the public speaking to the professionals.