The Christianville Spirit
The Spirit that Encourages Magical Moments
October 7th, 2026 – TCS # 957
Happy (New) Year of Writing, My Readers!
Interesting Greeting, You might say!
Well, as of Last Week,
I have entered into My 20th Year of Writing!
This (New) Year of Writing is My 20th Year, It means that
I have Entered into 20th Year of My Newsletter!
Oh My ‘Lanta!
So, To Begin My 20th Year of Writing,
First Off I would like to Humbly Thank You, My Readers, for Always being There to Read My Newsletters.
Whether You just Found out that Your Child has PTLS, in which Welcome to The PTLS Family!
Please Refer to The “PTLS FAQ” Newsletter before Continuing On.
On to This Week’s Newsletter! So, I thought that It would be Funny, to Celebrate The Opening of My 20th Year of Writing by Talking about Something that I do Very Well (In My Humble Opinion!) Writing.
Whenever I write, It is like My Soul comes to Life,
Whether I am Writing This Newsletter; Writing up A “Show” that My Friend, Deb and I have; or Even When I write out Mind Tapes that I have in My Head and They turn out to be The Most Romantic Storylines! My Soul is Jumping off The Page! More Often than Not, You can Tell when It is.
Sometimes though, More Often than I realize, My Fingers can’t Type as Fast as My Mind is Rolling.
As Part as My 20th Year Celebration of My Newsletter, The Folks Here at
The Christianville Spirit wrote a Tribute to Me in Honor of My 20th Year Writing This Newsletter!
Hard to Believe that I have been Writing My Newsletter for 20 Years, Roughly Every Wednesday (within Reason, of Course)
I started Writing =The Christianville Spirit= as sort of Life Updates as well Anything happening within The City of Christianville. "It started as a Project after High School" My Mom says. "Something to Keep His Mind Occupied and Keep The Skills (from School) He had Learned"
After A While of Choosing a Day to Write, which started as Friday, Thursday, Tuesday etc. He landed on Wednesday. The "Project" known as =The Christianville Spirit= took off.
(This was The First Official Newsletter after The Intro and Metro Tour on Blogsite)
The Christianville Spirit
The Spirit of Christianville
Roads and Travel, A look though Christian Smith’s Eyes:
Christian Smith has always loved Road Signs and Travel. But, why? People will say or think. What about Travel does Christian like? Well, I’m here to tell you. Ever since Elementary School when living in San Antonio he had loved Road Signs and the whole idea of traveling.
It started by his mom, Julie Smith who decided that it would be great having Christian ride the School Bus to and from. She set it up to where HIS stop would be the first going to school and last going home. That way he wouldn’t get confused on when to get off and he would get to see where everyone lived and of course, the Road Signs and sights along the way. Ever since then he’s been in love with the idea of traveling, road trips, and more…
Christian pays close attention to things along the road that we obviously wouldn’t. Like for example, he likes to look at the front and back the Big Green Highway Signs or he’ll see a difference in a city’s street signs, traffic lights, or even pavements. Here’s an observation that he makes when crossing a State or County Line. The pavement changes, here’s an example picture:
This is at the Mississippi-Alabama border on I-10 looking East into Alabama. Notice how the Pavement changes at the State Line. That kind of stuff is what Christian notices all the time.
Believe it or not, there are people take these pictures for fun and as a hobby. There are even websites on the internet in which have many pictures of Road Signs across the country and Christian loves go to those websites. If you would like to see for yourself, go to the following websites; http://www.aaroads.com/, http://www.state-ends.com/, and http://www.okroads.com/. The people take these pictures are called Roadgeeks, Even though their called that, he would rather call them Roadlovers because he believes that the word “geek” is offensive to them even though they may or may not care.
Christian loves road signs and traveling so much that every now and then, he’ll ask this mom to take him on a short road trip or drive to go see a city’s style of road signs. Some cities may have their street signs more or less green or other colors than others. Here would be example. The City of Frisco, TX has greener street signs than the City of Plano, TX does. That is one of many observations Christian can make.
All in all, Christian can make a lot of observations that we often can’t and THAT my friends, is what Christian Smith so special.
Thanks for reading The Christianville Spirit. Christian is special in HIS own way
Who knew All The Stories about Christian's Life that would have been told!
From Family;
to Dream Girl, Carol Holiday; Mentioning Woman of His Dreams, Suzanne Lafleur;
All The Way, Bridgett Lafleur!
Introduced Us to
(New!) PTLS Family Members that He met;
Travels for PTLS Events; Geography Lessons; and, Even His Own Romanticism!
He Even Introduced Us to Christianville Characters! including John Maplewood,
Festival Couple: Bryan and Holly Athens; and of Course, Newcomer to Christianville, Stephanie Miller.
So Much that Christian has Done for His Great Metro Area of Christianville, Tennessee. And, Much More to do in The Future,
Including His Romantic Person's Territory!
Christian had Done so Much and Growing along with His Newsletter,
The Christianville Spirit!
Here's to 20 Years here at
The Christianville Spirit!
But, Mostly, It is Easier to get all The Thoughts out and Try to Edit while Keeping The Thoughts in The Purest Form, All While Trying (Clearing Throat: I said I’m trying!) to follow those Annoying Writing Rules.
But, You have to admit that You Love The Product!
So, Let’s Watch as I poke Fun at Myself a Bit with My Thoughts that The Subject that I do Best, Writing!
Happy 20th Year to Me and Enjoy!
This Newsletter was Originally Written on
January 18th of 2012 (Refer to Newsletter 283)
So, The subject that I’m going to write about in this week’s newsletter is something that to most people who really know me already know and normal people think, “Your doing this now?.” Anyway, I’m going to write about...well, writing. My Writing in particular, I’m calling this newsletter, “Christian on Writing.” Now, thinking back, I would think that I should have wrote this years ago as an introduction and to warn you about My Style of Writing. You See, I’ve been writing this way since I started writing my newsletter, The Christianville Spirit. I never really noticed the way I wrote because it just flowed naturally and to me, I was and still am, concentrated on the material of the newsletter, not necessarily that it makes sense, Capitols are in place, it’s not a run-on sentence, and punctuation. Of Course, most people think, “Christian, If you know the rules then why don’t you use them?” and I know, for Members of My PTLS Family who are new and don’t know me are concerned if I even know the rules. Now, to help you, I do know the rules, I just choose not to use all of them because to put it kindly, I’m concentrating on what I want to say and what I talking about. Also, sometimes My mind goes faster than my fingers can type. So, to resolve the issue of those rules, I have My Mom help edit the newsletter before it’s released. Of Course, when we’re editing (to the point, that I allow her to edit), My Mom jokingly says things like
“Oh, Christian, the capitols!” and “Christian, your an English Professor’s Nightmare.” Now, what the capitol’s part of what My Mom refers to is that I put Capitol Letters on words that shouldn’t be capitalized and shockingly I forget to capitalize the first letter of a sentence sometimes because when I used to write on Microsoft Word, it capitalized the beginning for me. Of Course, again to calm the nerves of PTLS Members, I capitalize words, not because they need to capitalized but, because I somehow feel the need to capitalize the words. Also, It might have been that My Handwriting was and still to this day is, nearly all capitol letters. Actually, it took some time transitioning from my handwriting to a computer, this by the way was in the very beginning of My Newsletter, back when it was an email to My Family. At that time, I wrote in all caps, all the time even when I talked to my friends on IM or Instant Message on AIM. It took My Childhood Friend, Izzy to convince me to stop using all caps because it made it look like I was yelling all the time. Now, I don’t write in all caps anymore unless I’m angry (which is rarely) or I’m trying to put emphasis on something. I want to thank Mrs. Bachman for teaching me so much, I really did learn from you, I just like to write the way I do. All in all, that’s how I feel like writing and I hope it helps in getting to know me better.
Thanks for Reading The Christianville Spirit. Look at the content on the inside, don’t judge the looks on the outside.
