Greetings all,

Who am I? Well, I’m just another bozo on the bus who thinks he’s got a story to tell. I’m not a writer nor have I ever dreamed of being one but I got into writing five years ago when I started journalist and for some reason writing not only opened up and revealed the hell welled up inside that I want to talk about but it changed me, writing made me into a different person.

Why am I writing and what’s my plan? Well, most of what I’m writing has already been written and I’m just putting together bits and pieces. Since I started writing this book a year ago, the ending has taken shape in “real time” and I guess there’s nowhere else to go. I’ve got what I was looking for—self-knowledge, freedom from a life of shame and guilt and a dismantling of an ego that had me blind for years. I need an editor, probably, and I need to get this done. The purpose, then, would be to share my story and hopefully I can touch a life or change a life. However, just getting this story out of my head would make me an instant winner. I got a story, a real life story, I know. I don’t know if I have the writing skills so I’m here for you all to decide if I get the backing. What backing, I don’t know yet but I’m sure something will come up.

I’m an English teacher, an ESL teacher, in a Latin American country. I am a Colombian that was raised in New Jersey and who moved to Miami in the late seventies during the easy pickings of the early drug trade and despite the fact that much of my early story has much to do with my experiences in the drug trade and the scars it left, it’s more about a lost boy who finds himself late in life—or about a lost man who finds the magical boy deep inside who in the end turns out to be the unknown hero who not only rescues him but rescues an estranged relationship with his father and helps get back his own son who is, at the time of writing, just eleven years old.

Thank you all for hearing me out at least. I would like to send another chapter: The Boy. I’ll brush it up and send it over the weekend.

Best regards,

Jay Cano