I received a message recently from someone who told me that he and a family member have been following this blog for a long time, and said,
I wanted to reach out to let you know how much I appreciate your blog and the way you embrace and celebrate leather culture. Your passion for wearing leather with pride and purpose has been truly inspiring to me.
I am grateful for the way your writing has helped us bond and discuss various topics related to kink, fetish and leather in a more open and understanding way.
Thank you for the work you do and for being such a positive role model. It means a lot to both of us.
Wow… I honestly had no idea of the impact this lil’ ol’ blog could have. While I do not think of myself as a typical example of a gay Leatherman, I guess I have shared enough about my fetish interests that it has had some impact.
I titled this post “my authentic leather self” to describe how I have evolved to…
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Again, I am finding myself apologizing for not keeping up with this blog. One may think that since I retired and am pretty much staying home to reduce exposure to the Covid-19 virus, I would have more time to write on this blog.
YAY! I finally fixed this vexing issue where I had converted this blog domain (bootedmanblog.com) to HTTPS:// but after doing that, the images were not showing.
Dear readers,
Well, it has been a while, but this blog reached a major milestone in having this post be the 3,000th post on this blog. I realize this year I have been posting much less frequently. Regardless, the blog lives on since it began in January, 2008, more than 12 years ago.
Sheesh… after spending about 100 hours recoding 822 pages of 