Hello All,

Thank you all for the great turn out at the last global pick up conference in Washington D.C. I had a great time going back to D.C. I haven’t been there since I was about 12. It was a little different being able to go out, and naturally I had fun. If you’re not having fun this is all a chore, and no one likes chores.  I know I don’t. Yet there was a time when I didn’t have fun.  That is the story I am going to tell you today.

 No better place to begin than at the beginning. The beginning for me was middle school. That’s about the time I really started to like girls. I mean I always had girls as friends from kindergarden up.  Yet at middle school I started to think more about kissing and doing more with my girl friends. I started experimenting on how to do this.  Being nice to them was an early advice from my parents and brother. That worked like a charm. I had more girls who where friends but no girl friends.  Not what I wanted. But I always got another chance being an army brat I moved around almost every year a new school. A chance to reinvent myself, I tried notes to girls, emails, asking out, walking girls home buying girls flowers, driving them home. Same result more girls who were friends but no girl friends. This continued all the way to my junior year. When all my hard work (as I thought of it at the time) paid off, I drove a girl home and she gave me a kiss for giving her a ride home. I was 17 and happy as can be. I finally got my first kiss.  I thought I was going to be doing awesome my senior year since I was invited to 3 proms that year… as a friend. Yes… nothing happened, not even a kiss. [Read more...]