My message started in a small room on the campus of Grandview University. For the first time ever my readership reaches into every state in the country. How a small thing becomes a bigger thing is a recipe we call mix together.

Every week without fail my sister finds a way to remind, she believes it what I’m doing!

She has found a way to needle me about my writing in a way that makes me improve. I have treated spelling and grammar as an afterthought most of my life

How did one very cold year run down my face last weekend? My Flying Eagles Social Club friends, proved again they get me!

A focus on sheer numbers of people, money, houses, cars, or whatever else you think proves success will have us chasing a culture where there is more drug use, mental health symptoms, poverty, and homelessness.

What if I told you I can want border security to be strict, but also to allow asylum seekers and refugees in. It's not the either, or, that our leaders would have us think it is

If we, in general, are confused about gender roles, it is doubly difficult for transgender people who have to deal with gender identity, as well as prescribed gender roles. It does not help the general public is significantly lagging when it comes to understanding gender identity, sexuality, and gender fluidity.

The fact is, one positive social media post probably changes no one's life. Heck, with the way the internet works, it's an eye-drop of positive compared to a thunderstorm of negativity.