My introduction page as a writer trying to get publsihed and a collection of posts showing who I am through ancetdotal musings about my life or how I am inspired to write or why I write and how I write in my own wierd little way.
Here’s a little a something I started doing earlier this year. FENCING!…It’s something I have always wanted to try. I just finished my last class this last Thursday in June and I loved every minute of it. The people I trained with at West Michigan Fencing Academy there were great and the instructors were awesome.
I went for about 14 weeks non-stop and it was one of the best experiences I have ever had. I learned so much and sweated a lot at times. I hope to go back come September in the Fall when classes resume.
I love the friendly competition that it brings about and the support of your classmates and teachers…All in all a fun time. Now I can write what I know as they say in regards to some sword play in any of my stories….:)
I will just sit here and smile
like a marionette
with a painted on grin.
Shall that make you happy?
Nothing is wrong.
Seeeeeeeee….:)
I’m smiling just for you.
Aren’t I a good little boy?
Why should there ever be anything wrong?
Yes. Yes. Pat me on the head
All is fine in Whoville.
Why talk when
you can just
live in your own world of favored
opinions that works
just for you.
Judge me. Throw me away.
I have no friend.
I would hold your hand as you
walked through hell.
But you would kick me there
just to not be offended by
my presence you have already
deemed unworthy of your
company.
I guess I didn’t rate.
I guess the present I brought to
the party was found wanting
from the rest.
I guess I thought too much
of a friendship that was never
there.
Rhino and elephant poaching is detrimental not only to the rhino and elephant, but to global security. Poaching profits fund terrorist activity, like the kidnapping of over 200 girls in Nigeria.
On April 16, armed men took 223 girls from their beds in the middle of the night at their school in Nigeria. They disappeared into the dense forest near the Cameroon border, and have not been seen since. Boko Haram is the Islamic extremist group responsible. They especially oppose the education of women, and it is believed the militants are selling the girls to be brides of their tormentors.
The Nigerian based Islamic extremist group fights with advanced weaponry and equipment, which is in high contrast with the poor surroundings of the country. Their funding is vast and somewhat unknown. In part, they may be receiving funding from other terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda, they also reap benefits from robberies, and poachings.