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I’ve written quite a bit about changing the appearance of this site. I’m still trying to update pages on this site so that they are reader friendly while still allowing me to be somewhat aesthetically expressive. Learning how to do that has been time consuming.
As I am an assistant editor for OpEdNews, I find it difficult to keep up with the aesthetic changes I want to make to this site. If you visit on even a part time basis, you’ll notice that change doesn’t happen very quickly.
I still intend to maintain this site although the readership has fallen off and it wasn’t that great to start with. We all have something of value to offer and I’ve put too much work into this site to stop using it to offer what I have to offer. I think that my messages are as important as anyone’s and I’ll not stop expressing them. Of course, the more we dig ourselves into a social hole by following The Corporacracy’s front people, the more important it is to have people notice it and report it, as I think I do. I’ve said that my goal is to leave the world in better shape than I found it and the way I do that best is through my writing. I know I’ve opened eyes and hope to open more before it’s all done.
You can still find my music on many digital music web sites. Aside from posting songs on this site, CD Baby is still the main distributor of my music and it can be purchased directly from their site. I’ve completed six CDs and am finishing up production of my seventh. Although I write that I’ve completed six CDs, I’m in the process of going back over the old ones using new methodologies and technologies to improve the songs. I may never get to a place where I’m completely satisfied with my music. I spend hours remixing the old stuff and writing and recording new stuff. I recently visited my granddaughter and two new twin grandsons back in Connecticut. The visit was wonderful. I never thought that I’d like being called “Grandpa”, but I do. I’m proud of all of my children and especially proud of those who have taken on parenthood, no easy task. I have another grandson who lives in New Hampshire and I’m hoping with all my heart that I’ll see him in the not too distant future. In fact, I’m absolutely optimistic that I’ll visit with him, his mother, my daughter Jackie, and my son-in-law. It merely didn’t happen during this recent visit to the East Coast. I visited with one of my very close friends. It is about our friendship that I wrote the following poem:
Finite friends share infinite friendship,
Those fortunate enough to see its light,
That isn’t the first poem I’ve written for Eric. I’ve not posted the other six, written as sort of a theme. I’m still trying to decide whether I should merely continue adding poems to MINUS THE MUSIC or begin another book. MINUS THE MUSIC is, to this point, eclectic. In fact, I haven’t even broken it up into themed chapters as I did with MICHAEL’S BOOK OF POETRY (and some other assorted foolish verses) and VERSES FROM KINGFISHER WAY. I may still do that with MINUS THE MUSIC.
Truth be told, poetry has taken the biggest hit from my poor attempt at time management.
As you can see, when I find something new and interesting in my travels through cyberspace, I tend to put it on this home page.
Although I’ve written about what happened to me the first time I put a comment section on this site, I’ve taken a chance and put a comment venue back on the site.
In the first instance, I’ve come to the conclusion that those people won’t write anything that can be seen by others. Judging from what they wrote the first time I had a comment section, I can’t much blame them.
I’m not ready to stop trying to inject common sense and compassion into the human race. To friendship,
“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.” - Janis Joplin
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I write a column which is published on Mondays. The column is subtitled “Debatable Opinions; Letters to the Editor”. The main title for each column is extracted from the content of the letter to the editor with which I’m working at the time. You may have seen some of the essays/articles posted here on the 
Another passion is writing music. I’ve been doing this for about forty years or so and the need for me to continue writing music still exists. The ability to perform it may be decreasing a bit, but I’m not giving up on that either; not yet at any rate.
I’ve begun putting polls that readers can use for simple feedback for poems, lyrics (or music, too, if you’ve heard it) and even articles/essays. They can be used for simple feedback, as I said, but there is a comment section as well. I hope that eventually visitors will make use of the polls. I truly would like mature, meaningful feedback, even if it’s respectable disagreement or criticism of my writing.