Choices, we make them everyday in our lives. Some were made for us before we were old enough to make our own or before we knew what was being done period. For instance we didn’t make the choice of who we were born to, or what we look like, or what we will become. Those were decisions controlled by our parents, at least for us who were born in the 40’s 50s and 60s. Our generation still grew up with the old ways of raising kids, where a smack on the ass or a whack upside the head was still ok. Today such a thing would get a child to file for divorce from their parents or to be arrested.

       We can’t make the choices of where we attend Elementary School or even High School, but we do learn to pick friends and avoid enemies on our own. Funny how that happens as we grow older isn’t it and logic, reason and common sense seep into us and we realize what we are doing affects others not just ourselves.

         We can’t stop the child abuse we suffer through either, we can’t stop the mental pain, physical or emotional bullshit thrown at us by parents and siblings, but it all adds up to who we become as adults, hard to believe right, but true. We didn’t ask to be called names, we didn’t ask to be slapped, punched and beaten by our parents, we ask to be called stupid, retarded, emotionally damaged or anything else, but we got it, by so called adults who gave birth to us and were called mom and dads. Sad isn’t it, how some parents should never have been parents!. But the fact is we all are human, we all make mistakes, the best any child who is now an adult living in society can do, is to stop the endless cycle of pain and suffering by not passing it on in their children. Cycles will kill if they continue. I am happy to have had two daughters by my first wife, I don’t know them too well but enough to know my leaving hurt both of them in one way or another. I have tried to make it up to both of them in recent years and hope they now understand that I didn’t control what happened their mother did, and I lived through the pains of it myself. I did find them again 14 years later and try harder then hell to make things right for all of us. It’s all a father can do for his children he never really had a chance to know fully.

     Tuesday is coming fast for me, and it is not a day I look forward to of course since it is surgery day to remove the middle lobe of my right lung and the tumor in it. More than likely it will lead to a course of chemo or chemo and radiation next. But at least I will be alive and still here, to enjoy grandchildren and my wife some more. Like I said choice we can make, destinies and fates, I can not control and nor can I control cancer in my body. But I can fight it and will with every fiber of my being!

       Next subject Syria, it must be stopped from using chemical weapons on it’s own people and the possible  expansion of that use to other nations. Yet why is America always the police Force to Patrol And control the world? We can’t keep doing it folks, we don’t have the economic power, the political power of the need to get our asses kicked and our people killed for others who care not one bit about us. Lets stay out, don’t put boots on the ground in Syria, don’t send missiles in either, support the resistance yes, but damn don’t make us any more in danger or hated in the world than we are now. Understand I am a disabled Veteran and I am as patriotic as every American who ever served, but we don’t need to waste our troops, weapons and money on a nation that cares less about us then we do them. In History the only nation to help us was France during our Revolutionary War, so why do we continue to police the world at a high cost to us?

      Stories by Me: “Disappearing Hams”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DZPFKYS

                                “False Accusations”–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DYAID6G

                                “Passing on………..”- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMXC952     

 

       

  

       Welcome to August 30th, 2013, Syria is still a problem as it’s leaders gas it’s citizens, and President Obama must make a decision to act on his own or not act at all. Britain has declined to participate, an assault on Syria and America would have to go by ourselves. I disagree with any entry into Syria by American forces or weapons provided by us. We can not afford entry into a war we cannot win alone, and it is far too stupid to intervene, when our resources are spread so thin. If President Obama is smart he will find a Middle East Coalition Force to do the job, instead of getting involved. I have heard all the patriotic folks of the military and veterans speak up saying if we don’t do it who will, well how about saying why Americans and not natives to their own middle east area?

      Next Subject, Congress and it’s so called voting and control of what moves forward in America and what does not. Congress and the leaders of it on both sides of the fence need to wake up and move through health care, leave Obama Care alone and shore up medicare, medicaid and Social Security and The U.S. Postal service. Sadly, Congress is long jamming any progress by refusing to agree to anything put forward by the President and his people. Thus the American Economy and the people living in it suffer and fall further behind the world instead of leading it. Soon, we shall fall not only in credit limits and respect, but as a leader in economic ways to a also ran and that ladies and gentleman will prove to the world America is not invincible anymore!

      Being as it is now 2013 and the next Presidential Election shall be November of 2016, I believe Americans must now search for Obama’s replacement and we need Hillary Rodham Clinton. Tough, smart, logical and savvy Mrs. Clinton would work to improve America’s status in all ways and keep us out of wars we don’t belong in. Plus we would also get a support system for her and great advisor in former President Bill Clinton to back her up. America could not do wrong with Hillary Clinton as it’s first female President and she deserves it and has earned not only her place as a Stateswoman  Senator, and politician and Former First Lady, but as a strong knowledgeable individual who has strength of character and soul. Hillary 2016 I say folks!

        Well today being August 30th, 2013 I am now 4 days from my surgery on September 3rd, 2013. As I have said before removal of the middle lobe of my right lung is what it will be, removing not one the lobe but the mass inside it all at once. Recovery should not be too bad they say and invasion of my body will be minimal they say. four or five cuts through my rib cage, slits. Then the cutting off of the lobe and dragging it out through one of the openings. Then the biopsy will take place and I can learn what the mass really is, if cancer what kind and the stage and what treatments will be next. Should be a an interesting journey for me and the Doctor too.

      Stories-“You Don’t Know Me!”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EKNERFC

                    “Open Letter to Daughter I Never Knew”      

                     http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E7SMC2U

 

                      “Confrontations With Mom”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DC3BQK0

                     “UnWanted”–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CEKO3KW

                    

                     

       

     I remember when I was a kid, I wanted to be an adult so much it hurt, now I am an adult facing cancer and old age and wish I were a kid again, to do it all over. Amazing isn’t it folks, we all dream that way as kids. We wish we were older so we can attend a movie on our own, or go to a playground alone, or be trusted to use electronic toys on our own, or as when I grew up to want to smoke, run ,galavant, have sex, drink and more. The truth is once you get to try it you rally don’t want it lol, well at least most of it.  As you get older and hit your late fifties like me, all you want is a cup of coffee in the morning, a place to eat breakfast and then to get done what you have to do, and then lay down and rest and sleep. Funny how age takes away all the energy of youth isn’t it?

       Wars, policing nations, and the world, why Americans why? We don’t belong in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, or Syria. The Middle East is not a problem from my home here in America, it’s a circus to watch, the explosions and foolishness that happens there. I wonder if the Syrians, Egyptians, Afghans  Iranians, and Iraqis all ever stop to see how stupid fighting among themselves really is, will they ever learn and notice how stupid it is to do? No one wins by killing others, and wars are only a last resort!   

       Congress is my next rant of the day, Wake the Hell UP! As America moves forward through the next year and the last of President Obama’s second term as President, Congress needs to go back to work and save the U.S. POstal Service, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and yes ObamaCare too. They need to get over the fact they lost the election in 2008 these Republicans and move on to do the business we hired them to do. Sadly, they think holding the Government hostage and causing it to stop working is the way to get revenge on the Democrats. Wrong, they are hurting you and me folks, the Veterans, the Disabled, the average American of all races and colors and creeds, people you need to call you congressmen and women and your Senators, tell em get off their dead asses and earn the money we pay them, or get out of office now!

       I tell you what, if Congress, a Senator or anyone else in Government wants to trade place with a  disabled Veteran, Handicapped person or an elderly one on Medicaid/ Medicare, Obamacare or any other benefit programs, like Social Security, come see how you can live on less, try it once and you may understand.

      Cancer, is my next subject since I have it! I also suffer from six herniated discs in my spine, sleep apnea , stress, tension, depression, and more, yet I don’t run around asking for pity, just medical help from my country I served. I lived through the deaths of other cancer patients in my family. 1971, my grandfather, 1984 my father,1990 my step-father, and 1991 my mother, way back in the early 1970s, I saw a girlfriend get cancer of the ovaries, and then my wife in the 1990s. Now it is my turn to fight it off and do what I can to stay alive and I intend to fight every step of the way damn it!  I refused to just give up and lay down and die, the hell with that shit! So September 3rd, I lose a lobe of my right lung and the tumor I carry too and we shall see what is next. No Surrender I say.

      Family Stories for Today:

       “What Really Happened to Alex?”–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGPDBX0

       “Passing on……………………”–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMXC952

       “Abraham- A Man of Contradictions”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CWNZ3Y6

       “Fishing Days with Dad”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CXYI8MS

      “Confrontations With Mom”—- http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DC3BQK0

      “The Importance of Christmas”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DS5LUNA

     “The Flying Christmas Tree”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DV80T9A

      “Conversations With Dad”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EBC5FHG

      

      

      

      

      The Red Line has been crossed by Syrian Leader Assad, and his reign must end as must his killing and culling ways. My problem is why is it just America who sees it and has to act at this point? Where are France, England, Spain, Italy and the nations of Europe and the Middle East itself?   Why look at America that is a half-world away to solve a problem in the Middle East, it’s time Jordan, and other nations there get involved and stop him, not us!  Americans have given enough of our own fathers, mothers, sons and daughters to clean the world up, we don’t need it now. Save our money, save our military personnel and our weapons, don’t enter Syria, let someone else clean it up, we can’t afford to be the world’s police force anymore!

       Next subject for me! Memories we make them each day and we dream of them each night. We live for them and we die for them, we struggle through the good and bad of them our whole lives. They make us who we are each day and each night and in each circumstance and relationship we live in. Vital to all of us, some of us have lots of good memories and some bad, some have more bad than good, they are what determines our decisions each day in our life. We always look back at the memories to determine our reactions in the present for the future life we want. Just stop and think about it folks, you will find it’s true, for it is those memories in childhood that make us who we are when we grow up and go on our own!. So make good memories for your children, your teens, for they shall inherite the country and world after we are gone!.

       One more comment today from me on the world Americans live in and their leader, President Barrack Obama. The first man of color to hold  the Office of President of the United States and he should be extremely proud as should all African Americans, of what he did and is doing for his people and his country of all colors, races and nationalities. He has also proven in his now 5 years in office that it matters not what color your skin, your race, or nationality all age the same under the stress and pressures of being the American President. He has proven that making the decisions necessary for the American People and country as a whole is not easy, simple or for timid people. God Bless him and America and may our course always stay true and free, for all time.

       Mystery Stories/ Shorts  I wrote for all:

       “The Holy Land Murder”–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CCCZQ8A

       “The Northern Woods Murders”–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGMRXDC

      “God Damn It!”— http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMXD1TU

       “Three Mandolin Murder Mysteries in One!” –   http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00COQNJ38

        “Tick, Tock The Infernal Clock”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CDU0FIC

         The Project Murders, in Broad-View Acres– http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D3QZZU8

       

 

 

      I was asked by a child one day, do the good things really outweigh the bad things in life? I answered by saying depends on which road in life you take! It is true, I guess we all make our own decisions on which way we should go in life. Some of us prefer to go straight and honest through it all and take the good with the bad, others want to cheat the destined path they are given and become evil and or saints, but the average person has both good and bad in life. The question is how do you make sure the good outweighs the bad, well the answer is by honesty, truth,caring, compassion, and in the end loving those around you, no matter what they do or did to you, for they are family and friends. I know it’s not easy, but it is true as I am telling you, believe me.

       Time is now moving forward as usual for all of us, wars keep happening, planet resources keep being used up, the atmosphere we live in gets more polluted each day and we carry on, even depleting the fish and creatures of the oceans and polluting it too. Mankind is the only species that works overtime to murder itself, why is that anyone, ever figure that one out let us all know ok!

      Talking about wars, pain, suffering and all, Americans have had our own share of it all by now and our little over 200 years as a nation. We fought our own Revolution and won, we Fought our own Civil War and overcame each other, We fought two World Wars freeing others from Germans and Nazis, Then we fought to police Korea and Vietnam, and Afghanistan, Now Egypt, and Syria erupt in war and we watch wondering when Americans will be sent in to end it all. Why? Are we the father country on earth to protect our children, in other nations or the mother nation on the planet? Lets face it Americans we may lead the world in many ways, but do we have to lead in volunteering our people to die in others fights and wars, around the World? No, we shouldn’t stay out, let other nations step in and stop it all, bring our troops, our equipment, home, stop fighting wars for people who hate us and want us dead please!

     Well, 8 days from surgery today, soona Doctor will put me to sleep on September 3rd and remove the middle lobe of my right lung due to a  tumor in it. Yes, I am scared the biggest operation I ever have in my 57 years is removal of my appendix at 24. So it’s a major one for me and scarey, but i will hold up and fight through it all, it’s my way. I have never laid back and surrendered for anything important, it’s not in me to quit that easy. So I shall fight on and write more, as I do, God Bless America and all! 

      “You Don’t Know Me!”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EKNERFC

      “Open Letter to Daughter I Never Knew”–     http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E7SMC2U

      “The Importance of Christmas”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DS5LUNA

      “UnWanted”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CEKO3KW

     The Project Murders, in Broad-View Acres–   http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D3QZZU8

      “Tick, Tock The Infernal Clock”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CDU0FIC

Just a few Stories for ya all to scan, they be short ones but mine! Enjoy Please!

 

      August 25th, 2013, one more day closer to the NFL starting it’s Season schedule. Love the Football Games in everyway, watched em all growing up with dad and by myself. Seeing the big plays and teams you want to win is fun and cool and entertaining. I tend to stick with my team every year, even if they have never won a Super Bowl in their History. I love the purple and gold in Minnesota, the Vikings are my team and always will be, but, they need help defensively and to get Ponder to play better!  But a fan will always follow and hope for the best, win or lose!. I did the same with Baseball and The Boston Red Sox like my step-father, he was a fan too and never saw Boston win a Series, But I have lived to see them win three, so God Bless them. Go Red Sox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will be at Fenway on September 14th, come hell or high water, to see my Sox take on the Hated Yankees as they drive for a pennant once more. First time ever I will be there, and see them in person, after my surgery on September 3rd for a lobe removal for cancer!. I don’t want to miss it, it will be a real treat for me, in my life.

       Ok, onwards and upwards, Syrian leader Assad must go, and I don’t want American soldiers sent in after him, to fight their civil war for them. Any bastard who gasses his own people and children needs killed himself. Send in the Sniper Teams if anything and let him stick his head up and pop him, I say. Or poison him somehow and get it over with so his people will recover and survive. Genocide is illegal, immoral, and unethical and this man is crazy!

       Egypt come to mind next for me, and we set them up once with an Elected Leader and they took him out. So why do we bother going back again? We shouldn’t folks, The Egyptian people need to make up their own minds on what government they want and who as a leader not us, leave them to figure it out. Cover the story, journalists, but, don’t look for Americans to get involved a second time around, it would be foolish on our part.

       Anyway, unlike many people in the world who give up when faced with diseases of any kind, I plan on fighting through my lung cancer in every way I can. I will not just lay down and give up, I am not made that way and no one should. So, on September 3rd, I will have the middle lobe lobectomy done and go on from there with a positive outlook at life. I just hope I can still get to see my Red Sox on September 14th, 2013, I am dying to see Fenway Park, never been. And finally tickets to a game there are bought for me to go, thanks Arman!

       Sunday is a  day of rest they say for all, so I hope all have a great Sunday/ Funday as my sister always calls it!

         “You Don’t Know Me!”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EKNERFC

         “Conversations With Dad”–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EBC5FHG

         “False Accusations”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DYAID6G

 

         

 

 

        

     

 

 August 24th, 2013, a new day starts once more, coffee is in the cup and I am here! Good Morning world, I hope all are healthy, happy and getting along!

        Morning is filled with things waking up as a sunrise comes across the part of the earth you are on, invigorating each, living thing with energy. They wake up slowly but surely and go on their ways, gathering food, cleaning themselves and preparing in the hunt we all do for money, food and clothing. It’s funny how all beings are basically the same at the wake up point isn’t it!

        Egypt continues its struggle to find a government and leader it can trust, Syria is still in civil war, people being killed endlessly and by gas so one man can stay in power. Sad isn’t it, when those you once trusted as your leaders, become desperate and mean and kill their own people!  One sniper a good one could end the whole thing in Syria if Assad came out in the open. But we all know, that won’t happen, so in the end our Government will make the wrong choice again and throw American Men And Women into Syria to stop it all costing Americans money, time and lives. We should stay the hell out I say.

       While whoever reads this knows I am heading for surgery on September 3rd, 2013, to remove the middle lobe of my right lung due to a tumor in it, I also know I shall survive it at that stage and go on  while longer. The only question now is do I need chemo and radiation or just chemo or nothing once it is removed/ Time shall tell, for you can’t say what kind it is or how big it is, until it is removed and biopsied. So, that is next folks.

         Love Stories for all;

          “Unattainable Love”—http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CGPDGDU

          “Angie’s Folly”—– http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPMGIAC

         “My Maria”—–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CS3BTOS

          “Bea”——–http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E674TIM