Who Wants To Talk About Russell T. Hartsaw, Founder/Architect Of Russell Online?

And he definitely has the best of motives and wonderful character--though he had to be polished like a piece of coal over time in order to find the diamond. But, imo, there has always been a hole in that piece of coal, and anybody taking the time to look could have seen the beautiful diamond all along! One way or the other!?! I'm passionate about him in so many ways. He's my buddy, my love, and my hero for starters! I'll always celebrate January 15, 2007 because that's the first time that we met at Duno! Speaking of character, he's a character, too--especially, when he and Jesse (the grocery store owner across from Russell's apartment bujilding) get into some of their crazy conversations right there in the grocery store! LL

Duno is a discussion place similar to MyLot but different. I haven't been there in awhile and need to get over there. It's run by a nice, young man named Dan. I believe that the url is: http://www.duno.com Try it out and see. Anyway, Russell posted an invitation to visit his website there (which was Russell Online as Invisible Youth Network hadn't been created yet), and several people, including myself, took him up on it. We were very impressed with what we found! Russell, as I've indicated, is a very amazing person. This took place on January 15, 2007, and I had no idea that day that songs like Keeper Of The Stars would end up reminding me of him--though, in a platonic way, he did, as another beautiful song says, have me from Hello, because I knew that I wanted him on my dream team! I hope that anybody reading this will check out the following link. It's supposed to be a permalink, so let's hope that it will display as one... http://www.freewebs.com/iynvoice/whatshappening.htm?blogentryid=3183982

what is Duno?

Please give me some examples of what you mean by this. I totally disagree, but I'll give you the right to have your say if you can do better than this. When I went to check out your profile, there wasn't much written about you--and it seems as if you just joined today and for the purpose of dissing Russell. Now, we can't all like the same people, but I would like for you to give me some examples of why you feel this way about him.

I agree with the OP, mary seems you joined just so you can bash Russell. Well while he may be a scam to you for reasons only you alone know, I find otherwise. I don't know why, but this post made me remember the parable fo the Fox and the Grape, when he couldn't get them they suddenly became sour. Await your comments on what you mean by your remarks.

Thanks "gtdonna." Obviously, I like your response much better than I do the one given by "maryqpublic"--but, of course, in order to make it more credible, it would be good to include your reasons for why this is so. My own views of Russell are that he has taken a life where he wasn't dealt the best hand (and made some unwise decisions as he was sorting out his niche in life) and has turned that around to help teens and children who had become throwaways in our society. Now, I know that any person could make up some wild story about helping homeless/at-risk kids and run it on the Internet to be believed by gullible people all over the world. However, there's also real-life evidence that this is true--such as a feature story about him in a San Diego magazine. One might say that love is blind--and I'll be the first one to confess that I've fallen head-over-heels in love with this very special man! But I'm not blind to his faults. We're in touch with each other by e-mail, phone calls, and some snail-mail. Someday--soon, I hope!--we'll also experience some face time because I can hardly wait to hug and be hugged by him. He doesn't deserve remarks like "maryqpublic" made!