OK, so now I have a blog. I worked really hard to design a header that I liked. I have two entries on the page. My son put it up on the Internet. I keep going to it – to look at it – to see if I still like it. That’s what I tell myself each time I take a look at it. But I have a secret. I also keep going to the page to see what new words are up there, to see if something new has appeared, like I do with Facebook. But you know what? Each time I go there, it’s the same words that I see. It’s not like Facebook. It’s all on my shoulders now. It’s up to me to put the words there. I’ve been very hesitant about Blogging, because to me, blogs seem a bit like a modern day version of the Vanity Press. If I’m going to publish myself, what kind of words do I want to publish?
I feel like I should write down a “declaration of principles” a bit like Charles Foster Kane does in Citizen Kane just before he publishes his first edition of his new newspaper. What do I want this blog to be? What do I want it not to be?