My voice has always been one of the more distinctive things about me. Many of my earliest memories involve people commenting on my voice. Sometimes it was too loud. Sometimes too high. I can remember teachers in grade school hearing me before they saw me and saying, “That’s got to be Clay. I’d know that voice anywhere.” I was often described as talking “like a girl.” This last sentence, by the way, was not merely descriptive; it was value-laden. There was always someth