Introduction

One of my reasons for starting this is to avoid FaceBook. FaceBook is an addictive disease that is destroying the world. It doesn’t really understand that it is doing that any more than the Spanish Flu virus or the ebola virus, it just seems to be its function with regard to humans.

When a friend decided to start his own WordPress blogging site, I decided, “hey – I could do that too, and learn a lot in the process”. One of the things that I seem to have unlearned over the years was how to write, how to express myself, how to get my ideas out on some medium.

Again I blame FaceBook and all of the other short attention span media for this – as well as my and everyone’s addiction to those media. I can’t speak for others, but I always seem to have to scoop a meme, or make a cultural reference. And I think that I see that in others who use those media.

Its not like I ever expect anyone to read this or find this blog, I am doing this as a treat to myself. About a year ago I had a conversation at my wife Peg’s work reunion party with a guy named Denny, who is trying to write some legacy stories about his life – and ever since that I have had the hankering to pursue that in some form or another. So I hope that this gives me an opportunity.

I am not going to do an Orson Scott Card Speaker for the Dead sort of thing. I will leave discovery of my short comings to others. I would like to focus for now on the stories from my own life that made me feel something. I will start with “Greeper the Owl“.