kuglen.com

     This is easy – the online address is Kuglen.com.  Everyone is invited to participate – either by checking in every once in a while, making a comment to a blog that has been posted, or by posting your own blog. 

     Gray Kuglen is the owner of the Kuglen.com site and he has been generous enough with me – he gave me my own mailbox here at Kuglen.com and made me an editor of the blog.  The address and the password has been sitting in my inbox for a couple of months, waiting until I figured I had a few extra moments to look at this and try and figure out how to use it.  I am at the end of my Spring break from teaching 11th/12th grade English in Burbank (yes, it has taken me nearly the entire vacation to get to the point where I can even think about this – that’s how overwhelmed I feel), and I am finally ready to try and figure this out. 

     This is where the rest of you come in – meaning anyone who happens by this site and looks at anything that is posted.  I think it would be a good idea to keep Kuglen.com family oriented – and by family oriented I mean anyone with the last name Kuglen, along with the Rigalis, the Salles, the Weisens, the Macdonalds (we know you are out there Gordon, Maureen, and Michael!) and I am also including the folks on my mom’s side – the Greenes and the Carenbauers.  Finally, everyone else who visits, please consider yourself family, too.  Who knows what form this will eventually take -  I don’t plan on doing any ranting and raving over things I can’t control, like politics and the condition of public education in California - and I don’t think you want to read the minutiae of my life (although I could easily take this blog in that direction), so I thought it best to, at first, try to keep these postings as a way to keep in touch and to allow myself to be the processing center. 

Me recently at the Wild Animal Park; KK lives near by.

Here is my first proposal:

Send me a pictures of you, your family, your parents, an old picture (like the Christmas one from above) and I will post it to the blog.  You can add anything you want to write, too – either embed it in the email you send to me or attach it as a Word document and I will post it within a few days after I get it. 

How often do we ever see each other?  Hardly ever.  Kuglen.com – and this blog - is a way for us to keep up to date with each other in between the five-to-ten year breaks we have when people manage to get themselves together. 

I am easy to get ahold of – Sam@Kuglen.com  <— just click on the link and you can email me! 

I am looking forward to hearing from you ALL.