Pen Porter

Stamps I purchased at the Stamp Scrap Art Tour in Mesquite on January 22  I want to make two posts today. Because whether I keep pursuing this blog on future trips to Starbucks (i.e tomorrow, Friday, next week) or not, I am trying to find out what my best "niche" is before going into either free-lance writing or blogging as a money-making venture. I probably won't even share my blog posts on social media until if and when I decide this is going to be a regular thing for me. So, unless you're not me and happen to be reading this, it's more online brainstorming of what I should focus on. It's hard for this journalist turned marketing copywriter who has always made an effort to learn as much as I could about many different things and is passionate about more than a few. So, here's my brainstorming list of passions. My faith - I'm a Christian, first and foremost. I enjoy praying, singing and reading my Bible. So sometimes, I'm going to tell you about t...

 So here I am again, with my every few years effort to keep these blogs I started back in the 00s or 2010 or so updated.  So much has changed. I really, really, should have been telling you all my experiences for the last eight months or probably more. Because nine months ago today, I was here.  Jurupa Valley Beach, with Don and our friend Lydia on the second  2021 Community Clean-Up Day. This was our last week in Jurupa Valley. This is "Jurupa Valley Beach," a wide, sandy area along the Santa Ana River west of Downey Street in my former hometown. Don and our friend Lydia Ocasio had joined many others, especially employees and council members of the City of Jurupa Valley, in the second 2021 Community Clean-Up, which was in this "beach" park run by the city.  (We also participated in the first about 11 months ago.) But it was the very last walk Lydia and I did together, and the next-to-last walk for Jurupa Valley Motion, the Walking Club I founded in 2015. Six da...