You know I always had trouble in school and it was because I had dyslexia and

attention deficit disorder (undiagnosed at that time) especially with English. I always struggled to put my thoughts on paper. It seemed almost impossible for me to write how I felt but somehow, here recently, with the encouragement of my friends and loved ones I have been able to conquer my fears and disabilities and put how I feel on paper. I know it’s not Shakespeare but a lot of you seem to like it. My wife started the blog about a year ago and it had never gone anywhere, but with everyone urging me to write a book, I decided to try out my writings on you and my blog to see if other people were the least bit interested. A lot of people on the Charjean Facebook page cheered me on and unexpectedly, I have people from Venezuela, Indonesia, Germany, Ukraine, Canada, Russia and the United States that have read my blog. I am so very humbly proud to tell you when I looked at the numbers this morning they are now over 800 views. I realize that that’s not viral as they say on the web but it would be hard for me to understand any more than two people reading my writings and liking them, let alone 800 or more people reading them and coming back and reading more. So, as a thank you, I intend to take some of your advice and write a book. My wife says I should write it about things I know. One of my friends said that I should write it for kids so that they will know that more than just themselves have shortcomings and feelings. I want it to be a mystery series, so that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to write a mystery series about a family of boys with their girlfriends, their dad and the ghosts of their grandparents. I’m sorry but that’s the only peak that I can give you for now but if I ever finish it, and I hope that I will, you my friends, my wife and my family are the

inspiration for all I do. I will write as often as I can. I love the fact that you guys like what I write and I also want to make everyone on the Charjean, Bethel Grove, Cherokee and Airways page happy, so don’t worry, I will still write stories especially right now when they seem to be flooding back to me as if I was back there when we were young. I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for being so supportive and believe me I do know because I grew up with you, you can also be so critical, that means even more to me for that reason. I love you in my own way so thank you so very, very much. And I have to give a special thanks to Nancy, my biggest fan, thank you. Thanks to all of you that red My Blog!