Mission Accomplished!!..........almost

Finally, the Rock has come back to..........wait a minute.  Sorry about that.  I got carried away.  This has nothing to do with The Rock.   Actually, it has to do with my reaching a goal that I have been wanting to reach for several decades.   That goal, I am proud to say is that I finished my first book complete with the final edit and everything.  All that is left now is to find a publisher.   Unfortunately, I don't know one personally so I will need to beg.  That's alright too.  I am accustomed to begging.  Just ask my wife.  Usually it's begging her not to go all Lorena Bobbitt on me.  So far, so good.  Now if I can just find a publisher that likes me as much as my wife does.  Maybe I can manage to get published without the need for castration.  Wouldn't that be cool?


Now that I've reached my goal in life, what will I do next?  Kill myself and get it over with?  No.  I don't have time for that nor the tolerance for the pain it would cause me.  So, instead, I have decided to write again!  Yes, that is correct.   I am going to write another book.  Maybe if publishers see that I am not going to go away, they will publish me out of pity.  Hey!  I am not so proud that I can't accept a little pity publishing.  Pity me as much as you want.  Just buy my book so I can eat.


These past few weeks I have had ideas for new books pop into my head but I refused to start it for fear that I may forget that I needed to finish the first one first.  Now that that time has passed, I can feel free to let my mind wander and entertain new ideas.  After all, this is fun!

Point of View.

I am not going to start in on what’s wrong with this country.  Instead, I am going to ramble a little bit about one of the things that made our country great that we don’t do very much anymore.  Colloquialisms.   We used to be a nation so full of colloquialisms that it was fun and we just confounded other nations with our way of speaking.   Aahh, those were the days.  We were a nation with a personality.   Funny thing about it is that everyone around that nation knew exactly what you were saying.   Nowadays, you don’t often hear the word ‘nowadays’ because it is considered to be poor grammar and just plain uneducated.   We are more concerned with how we are perceived by the rest of the world that we have forgotten where we come from.

Sadly, we don’t see ourselves as a bunch of farmers that want to live in freedom and in peace.   In fact, we don’t see many farmers across our land.  Instead, those farms have been sold to make way for commerce and real estate development.   It used to be that America fed the world.  Now its America is indebted so much to the rest of the world that we probably won’t own our own country in the next hundred years.  

These days, it is considered to be successful not if you have a good family and good health.  Instead, the measurement is placed on how much money you make and what type of job you have.  So, we concentrate on not whether Johnny can tie his own shoes, look before he crosses a street, climb a tree and dig a hole with his hands.  What seems of more importance now is at what age he can calculate the value of Pi. The sooner the better.  There may be kids in Japan or India who can do that ate 8 months of age and we don’t want that to happen.  So, we force feed all this knowledge into their little heads at the earliest possible age rather than let them play and grow up naturally.   So what if he falls and gets a minor cut.  Let him.  He will learn more from that than from our drumming book smarts into his brain.

I say stop comparing ourselves to the rest of the world and let’s just go back to being ourselves.   Say something in public that will make someone’s head spin.  Have fun!  Enjoy life!