A new turn for the blog

For those of you that have been avid readers of this blog, first off, I want to say thank you for your continued support and interest in what is going on in my life here in Turkmenistan and my travels.

You might notice that some of my recent postings have been removed from the blog at this time. The reason is not because of intimidation nor censoring as many might think, but rather I have realized that however truthful that I thought I could be here in this blog,I did not realize that it carries with it certain consequences. Among those being the fact that peoples lives can be adversely affected just by the written word.

That being said, in the future you will begin to see a different type of writing on this site. All of the future stories will be ficitional but based on actual happenings. I do this not only for the safety of those discussed, but also because I do not want to put an only cynical point of view about life in Turkmenistan. In the recent past you might have noticed that most of my writings held with them a lot spite and vinegar at the way things are. I thought at the time that this is the stuff that people wanted or must know about life here in Turkmenistan. However, I forgot that with only writing about these things that I was doing a disservice to all of the good that happens in the everyday life of Turkmenistan. Yes it is there, I just was not looking for it.

So, I guess this is the long way of saying that it might be sometime before I put another posting up on this blog, but it is merely because I am working on story ideas and points of view that are balanced and do not adversly affect those close to me here in Turkmenistan.

I hope that all of you continue to visit this site and pass it along to any and all friends that might find what I write interesting.