Hello Readers! This past Father's day, June 2025 the kids got me one of those vanity book deals. You know the kind that ask a question a week for 52 weeks. I spent about 4 months working on it, but the narrative was pau in six weeks. That was because rather than spending a whole year answering questions I decided to derive material from past blog posts. On this site alone there were 73 entries plus there are more than a dozen other blog addressess that have used over many years. Many of the posts on this site and older ones have moved to draft form or discarded. Several, however,still remain.
Writing this book gave the opportunity to consolidate, edit, add photos, and update past posts. Of the 12 chapters in "True Stories..."only #12 is completely original. After getting the narrative done the next several months were spent gathering photos and getting them properly formatted. Daughter Deb followed the process throughout and made many grammar and typo corrections as well as getting the photos presentable. She is outstanding, as are Becca, Josh, Rayburn, Wendy, Albert whom each provided inspiration and helpful comments. And got to include my bros too.
Early November got the book published, There were only a handful of copies made, earmarked for our adult children, two older brothers, and three brothers from a different mother. It is not that my past posts have a large following but I do know there are more than five people that have read them. So, what have been struggling to do since publication is to get all the 12 chapters in a format that could easily be accessed and read. Finally this just weekend had an epiphany of sorts and figured how to get those chapters on this blog site.
They are not in order but it doesn't make a whole lot of difference whether one starts from the beginnin, middle or end. All but Chapters one and seven are accessed clicking on the link shown when open them up. Each link has been virus scanned by google and the computer where they were written which has virus protection. For chapters #1 and #7 the full narrative and photos pop up without a link.
The title for each chapter identifies what is covered. Some include items from external sources which are identified. Topics such as mercy, forgiveness, in particular contain input that struck me as extremely compelling whcih would be good for those I love and know to read.
Alright, that said if you have any questions or comments you can easily do so at the end of each post including this one. And if you want to write me I do have facebook messenger and feel free to contact that way. If want phone or email address just ask. If you read or look at the photos I hope you find such worth your time, perhaps a little thought provoking in spots, interesting, and maybe for some of you even entertaining!
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