About me

Many people start their story at a milestone. A major event that changed the course of their life.
When you hear phrases like, “I started from the bottom and worked my way up.” I think so what? I’m no different from most children… except my life literally began with a jet ride. I was a premature baby rushed from a small town turned City of Williams Lake to Vancouver.

Tallen Family Stories explores how hardship, family struggles, and early responsibilities shape our experience as adults.
This website isn’t built on perfection, or waiting for some magical diagnosis that everything will be okay.
It’s built on a declaration:

Even when life gets hard and even when the world feels broken — strong families can still thrive.

The site you are on, like me, is imperfect.
But just like life itself, I believe it’s still beautiful enough to share.

Here, we talk about health, but not just in terms of sickness.
Health isn’t just the presence or absence of illness. It’s the impact it has on purpose and how we live, love, and carry on.

Sickness isn’t just about the disease.
It’s about the emotional strain it places on families
This strain we calll burnout and its exhausting.

IF your health has been like mine then Cruelty of Discomfort is often matched with financial burdens, broken plans, and unexpected hardships. It hard to have friends when they wants to help but they honestly just don’t know how. It is really hard to know what to do when we don’t understand how to ask for help. A broken bone heals the discomfort goes before the bone is even healed. Health pain is the Chronic Discomfort. I see myself stuck in the middle. I have good days still but that up and down hope is often a curse. I rush to enjoy being free of constraints until I regret having an extra moment of fun. This is really deep stuff so lets pause.

Life throws storms whether you’re ready or not.
And when those storms hit, friends and even family may drift away.

When The World gets smaller then world seems louder
When The Room gets quieter then world gets faster
And the people are still standing beside you in various ways
these are the true ones who stay through the worst days
those few become the true definition of family.

I noticed my homes were shrinking as was my circle of friends.

The cost of $20 for gas now $80 so its family visits or poop tickets.

I was lucky meds started to work and I had a job offer and a career as a Restaurant Manager. This was icing on the cake as I got to be closer to a Living Grandparents. WORLD HEALTH RESTRICTIONS occurred but I had full-time employment thanks to the city’s Elbows up attitude. Unfortunately the already strained health system failed and blood work and testing travel was costing as much as rent. Then my doctor retired. Then I like so many people broke. I had some hope in that I starting writing English lessons for my Friend N. Paul from India as we was trying to improve. We then practiced road test. This made me do more then work. It made me think. I had to learn some Punjabi because N. Paul (Lucky) from was trying to improve his English so hard we ran out of common words. I then ran an English class through my church. This how to teach Adult English flipped the switch into Little John: Huff and Puff.

Thank you Lucky, Dr. Ken and “Music John” (If I am story John). A special thanks to our My Parents the Tallen Seniors and My Wife’ s Parents the Allen Seniors. No the reason I married my wife Denielle Allen was not because markers are cheaper then a Marriage certificate.

If you made it this far Thanks I want to ask How are you doing after you are reading that? Why because I care! I care because my Parents let me read books way beyond my age by some peoples standards. But my mom knew what I was reading and would ask me questions. They were her books Dean Kootz and John Saul. The nightmare fuel for some lead me into learning about special effects and soon movies were ruined by curiosity. People never liked watching people make the scenes and masks until children started watching adults play video games. Sorry 32-50 year old parents in 2025 you caused AI and rapid technology growth. I am thankful my video game skills allowed me to defeat the boss levels of life so far. The last couple of levels I am thankful as I have been playing two player with my wife. My parents more then 30 years ago and now my wife Deni asking are we watching a show or talking about a story?

Mr. Tallen says thanks you for making this possible and my alter ego Mr. Talon reminds you to ask children and friends how are you doing more often. We are community that will continue to grow, educate and support each other through celebrations and positiveity through the trails.