Purpose:

Friends and Forumgoers, I’d like to start off the It’s Your Community! Blog Series by giving you a little rundown of its purpose. I’ve started this blog in order to better serve the AO community by creating an open forum for the community to see the rationale behind the decisions I make as a moderator. Some are popular, some are unpopular, and I think that everyone deserves to give their opinion on the changes that are being made to their community.

Introduction:...

“so this is passion and it crawls upon my skin
and it sinks into my bones and I am whole again
and I feel it filling me and I pray it will never end
now it burns within my veins
and I am writing in ecstasy”
Passion - All That Remains

I’m not a big blogger by any means, but AO is kind of a new outlet for me. After all, sometimes your thoughts need to be released before they disappear forever because every thought counts. Thankfully, I’m combining...

So, some of you may know me, and some of you may not know me. That doesn't change the fact that in about a month, I'll be turning 27. It's a pretty ugly number. A prime number. Not really brimming with the drunkenness of, say, 21 or 22, and not quite so defeatist as 30 or, heaven protect us all, 40.

Now, I know all of you were planning on buying me flowers and cake and diamonds and things, but instead, I'm asking you to spend some cash on something cooler:

My DonorsChoose.org 27th Birthday Bash O' Giving...