This posting is to acknowledge that I, Jim Fothergill, otherwise known as James F. Fothergill in official documents and on the WWW, am the only author of "Wading into the Stream". I am a real person, not a group of writers. I am also "wordsforfree". The views and opinions in this column are mine. I am the management. If I have quoted or used someone else's words, it was an oversight, and I was not paid for their re-printing. It is my hope that qualifies as fair use. If I did not credit those words to the originator, I apologize. It was unintentional.
My views come from my upbringing, my education, my supplementary reading, and what I hear from various sources including print, broadcast television, broadcast radio, all internet sources, and person conversations. My topics could include virtually anything. I create no limits. They are also my views of the moment I write them. They are subject to change at any time, including during the piece in which I originally stated them. That is to say, my thinking can evolve within a given piece. Actually, that is often the goal. I think it would be fair to say that my thoughts are amorphous until I actually write them down. They are frequently mistaken and I will reverse myself with no notice.
These columns have been free for the entertainment of my readers. I have written and will create other columns from which I intend to be remunerated, one way or another. These columns may not use my actual name (see above), but they may be built in such a way that I can get paid when they are viewed, and it is possible I may create a non-profit entity that readers may contribute to enable actions that they could financially encourage.
Today's posting is really for me and anybody interested in my writing and its intentions. Thank you for reading it, and thank you for reading any of my past postings on "Wading into the Stream". I greatly appreciate you time and interest. It is my hope that we can continue this writer/reader relationship well into the future, and that we both will benefit from it in unseen and unanticipated ways.
