[ I Have Written North Of (600) Stories, Every Year Since I Started In 2017 ]
[ I Was, Am, Is Very Proud Of My Work & I Was Dying To Show My Work To People, But In A Broader Sense. People That I Personally Knew Were Not Interested In Reading Or Following What I Write ]
[ I Keep Telling Myself That Someday, Somehow One Of My Stories Will Be Read By That One Person That Will Share It ]
[ The Other Reason For Starting A Blog Was Because A Large Handful Of People Told Me To Start A Blog With My Stories ]
[ After My Father Took His Own Life, My Sister & I Got Put Into Foster Care ]
[ While In Our 3rd Foster Home, We Got Legally Adopted, Thereby Changing Our Last Name ]
[ This Was The Name I Went By Growing Up ]
[ I Became Estranged With That Dad In My Early 40’s ]
[ Well, One Day In 2011, I Woke-Up & Had An Epiphany. I Never Liked The Last Name That I Got Stuck With, Or Had Any Kind Of Emotional Attachment To It. Since That Man Wrote Me Out Of His Life In 2009, I Felt That He Did Not Deserve To Have His Last Name Carried Into The Future, By My Son. After Talking With My Wife, We Decided To Change Our Families Last Name To Her Maiden Name ]
[ Her Father Has Been A Bigger & Better Influence On Me Than The Dad That Raised Me. I Was Also Told In My 40’s By The Mom That Raised Me, That They Never Wanted To Adopt A Boy. They Only Wanted To Adopt My Sister, Therefore Making Me The “& One”. See Why That Man’s Name Did Not Deserve To Be Carried Forward? ]
[ I Carry My Wife’s Maiden Name With Honor. I Carry My Connection To My Wife’s Dad With Love & Pride. That Is The Last Name That I Proudly Put @ The End Of My Stories! ]
[ I Only Have One Regret In This Whole Thing … I Wish I Would Have Had This Idea Years Before 2011! ]
What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?
[ I Would Like It If My Blog Will Point Out There Are As Many Opinions On Subjects As There Are People & Subjects ]
[ Blogs Can Be Thought Provoking, Whether You Agree With I Wrote Or Not. You Probably Had An Opinion On It. My Blog Proked, Or Caused Someone To Have A Thought. Thought Provoking ]
[ I Would Like My Blog To Show The Reader A Different Way Of Thinking. America Is Based On Choices. What Kind Of Drink. Alcohol Or Not. Soda Or Not. Android Or Apple. Choices. Agreeing Or Disagreeing With Something/Someone Is A CHOICE! ]
[ I Always Hope That The Reader Will Like What I Write! But Not Everyone Will Like My Writings. I Am Not Naive Or That Big Of A Dreamer. Enjoy ]
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