The Next Mrs. America.....

...hopefully will be my sister, Kathryn Stuart. Kathryn won the title of Mrs. North Carolina this year, and is right now, as we type, contending for the Mrs. America crown.

This competition is a big high-turn and fancy-to-do (as Captain Jack Black would say). So I'm asking you all who don't know me from Adam, to send out winning wishes to a truly beautiful and classy lady, who very much deserves to represent our country for all the beauty and class it does truly have.

Along with my grandmother, mother and two sisters, my sister-in-law Kathryn is living proof that beautiful women with great inner beauty still exist today.

Besides, my younger brother Dustin can strut around our country as Mr. America, and can at least think he is more powerful than his bigger brother, which he never has been and never will be :-)

Starting tonight the competition is being taped, and I believe, being broadcast this Wednesday on WE television. Here is her bio:

Kathryn Stuart wins Mrs. North Carolina America 2007 pageant.

Kathryn Stuart is an international model, actress and singer and has been on the television soap opera “Passions” filmed in Hollywood California. She was born in Greenwood SC and lives with her husband Dustin and son Kaden in Matthews NC.

According to Frederick Galle Co-Executive Director of Mrs. North Carolina America, “Kathryn has appeared in print and on television internationally as an actress and model for products such as Volkswagen, Paramount, Rack Room Shoes, Ikea, Sonic, and Bassett.

Kathryn is a stunning 5’8” blonde with Navy blue eyes and of Cherokee Indian heritage. Kathryn who is 36 years old was Miss South Carolina Teen USA in 1990 then graduated from Winthrop University with a theater major.”

Oiling My Soul With Dreams

Shufflin' my feet
to the sounds of my heart's beats

Kickin' up earth's dust(in)
oilin' my soul with dreams that won't rust(in)

Hands in the air
and eyes on the prize

I am I
I am FREE

I AM ALIVE


Copyright © 2007 by Adam Stuart

Written for my brother, Dustin Stuart, whom I think of often, and just sent me a text encouraging me to keep being me. My response led to this poem, and I dedicate it to him. You're cool little brother, and the best little brother I could hope for. Thanks for believing in me. I love you.

Mrs. North Carolina - Kathryn Stuart

Kathryn being crowned



The Queen and her court

Mrs. North Carolina 2007 Kathryn Stuart with pageant directors

Congratulations Kathryn! My sister is the new Mrs. North Carolina. You are a beautiful woman, inside and out. We are blessed to have you in our family. Does this make my brother Mr. North Carolina? (He's saying it does).

We know you'll win Mrs. America and then Mrs. World. You're already a big winner with us and we're very proud of you!

click here to see Kathryn's TV interview

The Mrs. America Pageant has been invited to return to the spectacular
Loews Ventana Canyon in Tucson, AZ, August 22 - September 5, 2007.
The pageant will be broadcast several times
on WE-television network

The Mrs. World Pageant is scheduled to be taped in both Moscow and Sochi (on the Russian Riviera) March 8, 2008.

Going to Bed with Audrey and Waking up with Gilda

I used to hit the snooze button on my alarm clock too many times, until I moved my clock across the room, making me get out of bed to turn it off. That's worked pretty well, especially with it being so cold in the mornings lately. Once I'm up, I'm up!

This morning I had a fight with it, refusing to allow it to get me out of bed. I remember Kramer from Seinfeld solving this problem by moving his bed across the room next to his alarm clock. But that makes no sense. Why even set it?

Instead, I did something much more intelligent. I laid there with my hand open and upturned, praying for an alarm clock remote control to materialize, so I could hit the snooze button on it..... But the alarm clock finally won. My evil twin had chosen a station appropriately playing "Cold, Cold, Cold but Leaving Me Hot, Hot, Hot" as I got out of bed into the freezing Florida morning (I know, I know...I've become a thin-blooded whimp).

As I turned off the alarm, I turned on the TV and the drop-dead gorgeous Rita Hayworth kissed me good morning (Hot! Hot! Hot!). Remember in Notting Hill when Julia Roberts says "They go to bed with Gilda but wake up with me"? This is who she was talking about.

But then my lovely Rita danced away with Fred "Lucky Fred" Astaire in "You Were Never Lovelier" (1942), leaving me cold, cold, cold.

Last night I went to bed pretending to be dancing with Audrey Hepburn's child-like inner beauty while watching "Funny Face" (1957). She was really dancing with Fred "Lucky, Lucky, Lucky Fred" Astaire.




So now that I'm up and freezing I know exactly what I'm going to do.......go back to bed and dream I'm Fred Astaire! (I have no idea how to spell what Kramer says during these moments)




p.s. These two women are from a time long ago, when saying "I love you" meant something real and lasting (click here for more on "Saying 'I Love You'"). A time when it wasn't a rarity to find a woman who knows how to truly be strong and independent, yet classy and lady-like at the same time. A gentleman didn't have to rush to open a door or feel awkward giving a flower, because women knew how to appreciate simple chivalrous acts as something they deserved without having to be demanding.

I hope I'm helping bring this back by treating my daughters as the young ladies they are. My 10-year-old son no longer complains about having to open his sisters' car doors and now says "I'll get it Dad". I'm proud of you Brosden!

Hey! My brother's on TV. He was a struggling actor for awhile ("West Wing" his biggest gig) until this commercial. The company liked him so much (tall, blond, blue eyes, and without a doubt the better-looking and funnier of the two of us) that they offered him so much money to work for them he took it.

Before I get emails asking for his number, he's happily married (as are all my siblings....Why God? Why not me?!? LOL). In fact, join me in wishing his wonderful and beautiful wife luck as she's competing for the Mrs. South Carolina (and then I'm sure) Mrs. America title this year. You are a real and wonderful lady from a classy southern family.

Maybe real women still do exist today............That's OK. I'm in no hurry. I'm surrounded by love and truly happy about all the great things happening in my life. The right one will come along when the right one comes along, as they do for all of us who are content being alone without being lonely. Believe me, this is so much healthier and happier than being in a codependent relationship.