Launch

I recently read an article from The New York Times in which Evan Williams, one of the founders of Twitter, was explaining how the internet was broken.  In the early days he envisioned this place where people could just share their ideas and that this sharing of ideas would lead to a higher level of civilization.  Instead we have click bait and fake news.

This project is another yelp into the universe from a dust speck.  It's not click bait, but one woman's quest for truth and understanding.  I'm not out to sell anything or to get readers to do anything.  I'm just sharing thoughts and observations while I try to figure out a few things and work on my writing.

One of my alter-egos is a writer.  It's what I wanted to be when I grew up, starting in 5th grade when I realized that greatest place in my community was the public library and my favorite thing to do was to read.  Writers were my people.  I still want to be one.  I have two degrees in creative writing.  I am serious about this.  I won't lie-- I do fantasize about writing a book one day, but I oscillate between wanting to publish for fame or at least validation and just letting the work itself stand separate, apart from me. 

I recently returned to writing for a few months after not writing for years.  I attended local writerly events, wrote, got excited about it.  I also got a bit burned by it-- faced some of the pitfalls of a community of writers-- the ego the yearning the opinions the cost in time and photocopying and printing and the trying to explain to people who just don't get it. 

A blog is an interesting format.  It's public, but it can be anonymous.  That's what I want.  I want the freedom to write with the honesty of a journal, but I want to write as if someone is actually listening.  I want to spout off!  And to share my vision of life and the world that I live in. So for me, this blog is a personal forum and a piece of public art.  You are invited to walk about here and come to your own conclusions.

I have another degree in library science so I can have a job that I love.  I do love it.  Love it like a sibling I don't always get along with.  As you can imagine, working in a library gives me access to a whole lot of information.  If I hit on a topic I'm interested in, I can easily get carried away.  If I stumble across a book or a something that I think is particularly noteworthy, I'm probably going to want to write about it.