Starting this blog has a little bit of history and is interesting how it all came about.  This blog is for me. Whoever decides to follow, judge me if you want, I don't care, but I warn you that you are going to see my insides because I am holding nothing back and going to be completely transparent. And it might not be pretty. Lol It all started when I was having a 'discussion' with some friends and when the conversation went from a reasonable discussion to an emotional debate, I stopped the conversation. I got frustrated with myself  and started thinking, I want so bad to know stuff about philosophy, the Founding Fathers, the Constitution and Individual Rights, the Gospel, and everything else! Once I know more about these subjects I can have a better conversation with people. I cannot force my views on others, nor do I want to, but I can use my power of persuasion to teach truth. But I cannot teach truth if I don't know it for myself. There are many things I do know to be true, but hard for me to articulate into words. I was pondering this 'weakness' I have and what I can do about it. So I thought for 1 year I am just going to keep my mouth shut and read at least 1 book a month for a whole year.  A few nights ago I started reading The Real Thomas Jefferson. I read how Thomas's Mom was described as and I long for those characteristics - "a woman of a clear and strong understanding". I began to read about his father, and when I did, it validated my feelings I had earlier about reading. - "Peter...but being of a strong mind, sound judgement, and eager after information, he read much and improved himself." Oh how I love that! I want to read much and improve myself too. As I was telling Jewel about this, she informed me of a way Grandpa Skousen did this, and how Rick did this. Well those are 2 men I admire greatly, so I was eager to hear. They read and read and read, and as they did, they created a blog.  They wrote their feelings, findings and inspiration down.  When you write things down, you retain the information better, and as others comment, you learn from them as well. good and bad I am sure. I can write better than I can talk most times, so this is great advice for me. Then Jewel was inspired. I am forever grateful to her. She reminded me that 1 year from now is Grandpa Skousen's 100th birthday. What better birthday gift could I give to him, then a better foundation on truth, a more keen intellect and a greater love for myself and those whom I am studying? Especially when most of those books I am reading are his? :) So...short story long, this will be my blog until January 20, 2013 of what I am learning, studying, my inspirations and ah-ha moments. If any of you want to leave comments, that is fine, but if you start saying really stupid stuff, I might block you. That is what Facebook is for. One more thing, the reason my blog is called one blog in front of the other.  That came from, again, my Jewel when I was down on life. She so lovingly and wisely said "One step in front of the other.... one day at a time. Keep moving forward." That is what I am doing with this blog. one blog in front of the other, one day at a time, keep moving forward and in one years time, I can see how far I have really come.