Hello friends & much-appreciated followers,

If you have arrived here by some way of your own, that’s exciting and I want to thank you greatly for your first visit - that equally makes you an initial-adopter (not even an early-adopter, but an initial adopter) of this writing forum with me.  I hope you will stay with me, so I hope I can you interested and engaged.  If you have constructive ideas for improvement,  or if you’d even like to propose a guest writing spot, perhaps as a one-off, an occasional, or a very regular contributor, and therefore, partner of some agreeable arrangement, I am an included, not an excluder.  You would message me here through this Blog.

I have lived A LOT OF LIFE in my hearts.  Many of which were heavily compressed into my first 30 years.  By the time I was 24-years-old I had lived and worked in 10 different States, including Illinois, Florida, Louisiana, Virginia, Massachusetts, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, in that order, although there was a bounce back to Florida, to South Miami Beach, Miami, Florida (a rather desperate move to save a relationship with a special young lady whose heart I know I hurt, and for whom to “win back” I tried everything I could and MORE.  That included throwing my career down at the feet of my then boss and essentially begging to be transferred to Miami, near where we together had found her beautiful gated apartment.  I would get to see her only one time while I lived in Miami.

Those early career moves included living in the Cities - and dumps of - (and I refrain from naming which are which) of