EXPANDING YOUR HORIZONS

You might not like broccoli, but if you've never tried it, then you don't know if you do or not. It isn't always easy to try new things and expand your horizons, but it is the way that we learn, grow and become better people.

I've driven for at least 34 years. Every day! I started before it was even legal for me to drive and I had driven in any and every kind of weather or situation imaginable by the time I was 25. I've driven everything from a tiny Ford Escort to a diesel truck with a flatbed and a Hay Swather (12 foot to 20 foot wide head for cutting hay), tied down to it. I've driven into the tightest corners in driveways and alleys in the world with large machinery on a truck and gotten along just fine. Needless to say, my driving ability exceeds the average. And then I came to Medellin.

There are no rules in Medellin. People drive however they want and where ever they want. Motorcycles do not stay in their lanes, they zip up between, in front, behind and all around the other cars in traffic. Having observed this chaos from bus and taxi, I believes that it was not something that I wanted to do. So, when a friend asked me to drive their car through Medellin and out into the country to visit a farm, I was more than nervous about it. I really didn't want to. I couldn't really get out of it. I did it. And...

It wasn't bad. I actually never noticed the difference.

There are people out there who have never sat down and enjoyed a fiction novel. There are various reasons why they haven't. Many have to do with High School literature teachers that completely destroyed their desire to read, however, most simply have never developed a taste for it. They have yet to plunge themselves into an imaginary world, in an imaginary place and time, doing the impossible and overcoming the world. Because of this, most of them even lack imagination and creativity. Television, computers, video games, iPods, etc. are ruining the brains and imaginations of people all over the world. I've spoken before of how dangerous it is for people to be this way in previous posts "The Threat of Not Reading."

Join my crusade to get more people reading fiction and literature. There are several ways that you can help:

- First, sign up for my blog and share it with your friends and family. It's extremely easy. Fill in the info below to sign up and click on the share buttons for Twitter, Facebook and Google+ below each of my blogs.

- Second, purchase my books and share them with your friends. Request them at your local library. My books are purposely thin and only about 100 pages. To a new reader, a Tom Clancy thickness novel is completely overwhelming and intimidating. Use my books to help get them started.

- Support my publishing campaign on Indiegogo to print two of my novellas in Spanish. Click on the campaign advertisement in the side column. This will allow me to get these books into the hands of readers in Colombia. Less than 5% of Colombians read fiction and that is simply not an acceptable number for a democratic country.

READING EXPANDS HORIZONS. You can help that happen.

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