I guess I should begin with who I am and why I decided to write a blog. Truthfully, I am writing this for me, simply because I have always loved writing and now seemed like the right time to do it.
As a child, I was constantly writing it was rare to see me without paper and pencil in hand. I wrote all of the time; poems, lyrics, stories and all of these things were made up of my singular thoughts, feelings and opinions. I kept private journals for years, many which I still have (laughing to self) somewhere. Periodically, I have stumbled across them grabbing them and finding myself amused by my own naiveté in both my youth and young adult years. My husband still believes that I am naïve; personally, I think I am just oblivious to the ways of the world and that is okay with me.
I have lived and traveled around the world and I have settled and raised my children in Alaska for twenty plus years. In my journey to me, I have weathered personal losses (my grandmother), financial setbacks, and discovered my soul mate.
What jumped started me…
I realized several months ago that I still had a love for reading and writing, what was my big clue? When I stumbled across Grammar Girl’s podcast I was more excited to listen to those than I was when I received my first bicycle. I listened to them driving my car, at work, before bed, I even listened to them during graduation last year at two of my schools (but that is for another blog).
I think the bigger question is why did I stop writing? The time bandit got me; work, school, parenthood, matrimony, community involvement, personal obligations and writing fell to the side of the road a victim to all of the above and so much more.
Why would I write?
Someone once told me that “everyone us has the ability to write, but only a precious few of us will craft it into an art.” I choose and anticipate that I will be in the latter. I have incredible heartfelt stories to share and a knack for reeling people in with my words and commentary.
My blog will be the venue in which I will be sharing them.
My goals;
I plan to spend a minimum of 30 minutes writing each day, I write best early in the morning upon waking, when I am alone and my house is quiet.
What I hope to accomplish is purely personal. I believe that writing a daily blog will aid me to improve my writing and getting past my fear of not having perfected my grammatical and punctuation skills.
I will leave it to you to discern what is fact, fiction or truth; my soul objective is to write for the love of writing.
So, I hope to touch your soul, make you laugh/cry or view an opinion from a different perspective, but in the end this blog will always come back to being about my world and my perspective.
