You Old Blogger You!
It is pretty amazing to me that I not only know the word blog, I also know the definition … and I have one! I wouldn’t consider myself computer literate, nor would I consider myself computer illiterate but if I were to tell most of my friends that I have a blog they would probably hand me a handkerchief. Then they would ask me … why? And I would probably answer … I don’t know!
My generation has been a journal writing generation, but we have always been taught to hide them! Under no circumstances are you to put anything in them that might offend someone after you are dead. It’s just one of those things our mother’s taught us … like always wearing clean underwear in case of an accident (like anyone in an accident at my age would have clean underwear afterwards anyway). At sixty, and after giving birth to five babies, clean underwear is an accident just waiting to happen.
Blogging must give the blogger a feeling of power. I mean in my own blog I can be the expert. I can say what I want because I’m the boss of it. If I want to say I’m a Democratic … well never mind going that far … not in Utah for heaven’s sake!
Maybe the best thing about a blog is it gives us permission to unscramble our thoughts and slow down long enough to write about them, and that feels good to an old timer who used to call it a journal. I will probably put more thought into a blog than a journal because maybe somebody is going to read it. I’d like to think that what I write is useful … even before I die.
Wow, you got yourself a real blog! Congrats. I think you’ll really enjoy the community of bloggers and I look forward to reading your blog often.
YA! Momma finally started a blog. I love to read what you write about and I am excited to check each day to see what you have written. You are definitely a true computer geek just like the rest of us.