About Me & This Blog

Smiles in life
are like water for plants!

Hi and welcome to my blog!

Hey thank you for checking out my blog!  My name is Orlando and I am just some dude who has had life experiences, you know the kind that some people may not want to talk about, and wants to share them in the hopes that people will connect with them!

I am a combat veteran, social worker, freemason, husband, son, brother, writer, actor, joke teller Latino and the list goes on and on.

Also like most people in the world there is more than one version of me, I have my public persona, the one that I share with people in social settings at work, church etc. and then there is me when I get home and close the door to the world.  This is the me that you should be most intrigued by, and I in turn am always intrigued by that version of you!

It is when that door closes that the complexities of human life and existing as a human being on this planet come gushing out and usually in modern art image smashing collage kind of ways...you know...hard to understand.

I struggle, and I mean I struggle a lot, I struggle with depression and anxiety, yeah that's right, the "I don't want to get out of bed and do anything" kind and other stuff too.  I struggle with a low self-esteem and I am constantly trying to figure this thing called life out and whether I am good at it or not.  I mean, am I where I am supposed to be at this age? Should I be making more money? Am I happy? Am I really pursuing my dreams?  Why am I even on this planet to begin with? And the beat goes on!

I also thrive!  I have a "way with people" I have been told.  I can make people smile and laugh pretty easily and I am proud of that.  I can lend a listening ear and offer soothing words.   I also have great hair.  My sister once said, "you have a way of taking people's energy, magnifying it and giving it back to them," so I guess I can do that too!

My beautiful wife always tells me (and with honest conviction) "You can achieve whatever you want to achieve in life," Sounds cliché I know, but when the person telling you is someone who knows you like no other person on earth it makes it real people.

So back to the original question...why this blog???

More than anything, I want you to know that you are not alone!!!

So join me as I share myself with the world, let's laugh and cry.  Let's debate and yell and finish the night off with a beer, glass of wine or whatever your favorite spirit is, let's gossip and tell secrets, but more than anything 

let's connect!