Welcome to my Blog Space on the Internet!
I have created this in the hopes of engaging thoughtful and thought provoking people and their ideas. The idea of maintaining a blog seems to be a natural consequence of my interest in the world of cyberspace.
I have a personal website and a number of memberships in online communities, but this seems like what I really wanted to get to from the beginning. I wanted a forum to engage people in conversation on as diverse a range of topics as possible. I also wanted to shamelessly promote myself and my writings and somewhere along the way I figured a blog would be the best way to do it. So you will see links and tags from time to time directing you to my works and to associates I choose to promote. (I have a number of business associates; including a son in construction, and friends who own some companies I do odd jobs for that I will promote too.)
So here I am ready to have you dive in and join you in everything from heated political discussion, to sharing your poetry and stories. However what I want to do most of all is to engage you, share with you, and in the end maybe we can learn something from one another.
While I am strongly opinionated, and consider myself hard-headed I welcome the challenge of those whose philosophical views may not always agree with mine. My only condition is that no matter how passionately you feel, that you maintain civility. While that generally means in most blogs no fowl language; in this one it means that plus: Don't make it personal! It's okay to attack a person's logic, ideas, and conclusions; but personal attacks will not be tolerated and will lead to suspension from this site!
Once again -- Welcome: The Smiling Reaper Awaits You!
