Stories - FD Thornton

For the last week or so, I have been putting together a website for my business. And I have been going back and to about rather to keep up the web page or take it down because of lack of money. I realize it takes money to make money, but is this really the right time to begin? The more and more I think about it I wonder do I have the time, money, and dedication to put toward a business right now. And that maybe there are some less expensive ways to get the word out there. At this time I'm going back to school to finish up my final 6 months or so. And I still feel that somewhere I can find a salary job to hold us down till then. Also to consider with all this is the fact that I need to trim, trim, trim some more from the family budget. So I guess the point of this blog is, give life changing decisions a lot of careful thought. Because like myself, others lives maybe affected to.

Well at 3:36 am on November 19, 1962 I was born at old Telfair Women's Hospital in Savannah, GA. And now it's 6:36 am on November 19, 2011 and I am 49 and 3 hours old. Years ago in class we discussed what the year 2000 would be like. We had to figure out how old we would be that year. It turned out I would be 38 years old, wow; to many of us that was a lifetime. It's funny now that that was 11 years ago. The reason I thought about that today was because even though I am 49, I don't feel 49. Now my behind tells me I'm 49 everyday, as well as, other parts of me. But who I really am on the inside doesn't feel that way. If you hear me talk around here you wouldn't think of me as an optimist. If you look at my situation you wouldn't think that either. But truly I am very much an optimist. I'm looking forward to doing great things. Which typing this kinda makes me laugh considering. Still, I believe I have some important things to do. And, it's in th

Most of us have had some defining moments in our lives that shaped who we are. Some of these moments are good (marriage, birth of a child) some not so good (divorce, death of a loved one). Either way, it is these turns in life that can shape us as we grow older. For many years I knew I had some talents that I was given. One being what you see here and others more analylical and far-sighted. But I never put these talents to many use. I only did what was required of me, mostly for fear of rejection and being laughed out of the room.  These haunts, as I call them, are painful reminders of hurts and torment I received in childhood.   And sometimes they still haunt me today. But this is about defining moments and one of those for me was my marriage to my wife and the birth of our children. It was these events that seemed to create a change within me. To make me want to become a better person. Now these changes did not come over night, in fact it took many years to happen, and it st