Happy New Year, America

The arrival of a new year is both hopeful and daunting. There are surprises of all sorts just around the corner.

My outlook on things over the past few years has not been good. Largely, I confess, it still isn't. There are challenges ahead of us. Great ones.

Yet, surely I do not need to be reminded again -- at 43 years of age -- the best way to overcome obstacles is to deal with them actively as best you can. If they are great, they cannot be overcome over night. If they are widespread, it may be necessary for many to work in unison with others to combat them. But no matter the size, small or large, ignoring them doesn't work, and, typically, neither does yelling at them. Though that approach keeps my blood pressure lower.

It's no secret to others who know me what a disaster I think the last few years have been under a disingenuous Administration more determined to undermine and weaken America than accent her strengths, celebrate her possibilities, inspire her to ever more. No, that is not the group we're now dealing with. And, yeah, I've been inclined to scream just that from the hill tops to anyone who might be willing to listen.

Perhaps some good came from it, still can . . . I hope, as I'm not apt to stop.

But something more is needed. Americans who care about America must now act, individually celebrate and become what and who it is they most believe can help to right the ship.

In this new year, in 2011, a year I'm not sure I personally have a lot of hope for, I will be starting my first ever small business. I'm excited about it, whatever is out there. I feel good about it because whatever surprises lie ahead, I'm going to be personally celebrating the free market, the individually opportunities I like to preach about. Taking part and doing, after all, is the best testimony to what you believe. It is, well, so very, very American.

I plan to not only practice what I preach, but work my ass off to turn my ideas into something. Something I can be proud of. Something which might inspire others. Something which will be a testament to and of the America I love.



The Power of the American Individual comes from a multitude of freedoms, manifests from an unique individual experience and point of view. Individual grains of sand constituting a beautiful beach.

It is my time to try to build a sand castle.

Happy New Year in 2011, America.