It’s been a long time since I’ve done any kind of consistent blogging, but I’m hoping that this will be a new step forward for me. I’ve always enjoyed writing, and have had many blogs over the years. I had a Xanga back when it was popular, then got help from a friend in designing my own ad-infested Tripod site, then moved on to posting on the social nightmare that is MySpace. Each has been slightly more disastrous than the next, but I did it anyways because I wanted to put my thoughts out there for anyone to see. Now it’s time for me to take another step forward, and to that effect I’ve purchased this domain. I’ve been thinking about it for quite a while, and last week I decided to make it official and start something real.
I stay pretty busy between work, school, and trying to maintain some modicum of a social life, but I think these things will only serve to help me write more as opposed to preventing me from writing at all. I have lots of opinions, and anyone who knows me knows that I have no problem whatsoever in voicing them. Sometimes I’ll say something everyone can stand behind, and sometimes I’ll stand alone, but either way, I’ll be standing up for something. I want to someday be a published writer, and I think this is a means to that end. Only time will tell, and I’m willing to stare at the clock for as long as it takes.
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ill be keeping an eye out for more to come.
Hello James Dean!!
I am excited about your site!
I look forward to reading your stuff!
Muah!
I came, I saw, I read. Ready for some juicy stuff now!
Why stand alone when you have friends to stand next to?
Yay! I’m glad you’re going to be blogging again. I shall add this page to my favorites….right under all the Twilight links of course.
I promise to check everyday so you’d better be blogging some interesting things for me to read about.
I am excited to see this page
I will be book-marking it and reading/replying as often as possible!
Mucho-love Dean!
You know that last paragraph is so you. You just forgot to add love to talk! I will keep reading because I can either learn something or trick you in telling me about Breaking Dawn or crack up!
Congratulations on your site, wish you the best. I hope that all who read will be able to see what I see, someone who is putting forth a real effort to do their best but also knows that they are a work in progress and wants to do more and give more. I know that I do not know you as well as many others but I have my opinions and don’t mind sharing them. Good Luck!
You? Opinionated? Really? Wonder where you learned about voicing opinions –which if you remember, are not right or wrong, just what you think — having a flashback to childhood, yet? As we say in our family, “The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard” Look forward to reading your stuff, well maybe not all your stuff cuz I am Mom and I don’t need to know everything and…are you going to put stuff I don’t want to read on your site, & could you warn me, in advance, not to read it? Just kidding. Love ya!
For a long time, I have wanted to participate in a multi-generational forum where we could all share our experiences, and outcome of those experiences. We all lead lives that are busy, busy and don’t take time to share these things, or perhaps we share them with only one or two folks. Therefore, many times we find ourselves reinventing the wheel when it isn’t necessary. So many times, I have spent a great deal of time working out a solution to a problem, only to be told by someone else that they (or a friend) had solved the same problem years ago. Bummer!!!
Those of us who are older have experiences to share in areas that time never changes. We also have areas where we can and need to update our thinking, which is where you young ‘uns can help us. We have REASONS for the way we think, and you have REASONS for the way you think, but we don’t seem to share those in a non-confrontational, non-judgmental forum. This looks like a place where that could happen.
If we don’t share our reasons, we leave them open to interpretation by others. An example: My dad would never buy us a coke when we went on the long trip to our grandparents’ farm. He would buy one coke and we each (all 7 of us) got one swallow. He said that if we were thirsty, we could get a drink from the water fountain. He never shared the reason behind his actions, so we applied our own interpretation—he’s just mean and doesn’t want us to have our own coke. Forty years later, he made the statement that he refused to pay a quarter for something he could have at home for a dime. He was making a sound financial decision for his family, but because he never explained, we misinterpreted his actions. I even wrote a poem about that a few years back.
Lesson Learned
When I was much too young to know
The value of money and things,
Dad would buy one tiny coke,
And we would all get a drink.
“If you’re thirsty, you’ll drink water.”
The swallow of coke was a treat.
We’d pass it around between us
As we sat in our car’s back seat.
We didn’t know it at the time
The lesson we needed to learn…
Drink water out, when it is free,
And save the money you’ve earned.
It doesn’t make sense to me for us to wait until somebody “steps in it” before we offer ways to avoid stepping in it altogether. I see your “blog” as a place where we can pass along things of value that pertain to OUR lives and OUR worldview, and NOT where we blindly forward all that junk mail that floats along through the cosmos. It seems like a place where if you find something that “speaks to you,” you could share it and let folks know why it speaks to you. And then we could all talk about it. I like to know what makes people tick. Lord knows I have been trying to figure out what makes me tick for over 50 years.
God has allowed me to experience many things in my life, both happy and sad, and I believe His purpose in allowing them to happen to me is so that I can share them with others, and perhaps make a positive difference in their lives.
I finally got internet back!
Great stuff Dean, looking forward to reading more.
The entry about Terry is my favorite so far.