Preface

The purpose of this blog is to post one piece of writing per day for 365 days.

I cannot say for certain the reason that I have chosen this new writing, online adventure. Briefly, I can say that I am searching for a way to force myself into creating a consistent writing habit. And, as some of you may know, I am stubborn and attempt to be true to my word, to a fault. Most of the time that is for a just and moral reason, at least to me. Perhaps I worry too much about what other people think of me. Either way, I put an enormous amount of pressure on myself to do what I say I am going to do. So, when I say that I am going to create a post once a day for an entire year that is what I intend to do without fail. That is the purpose of the whole experiment. Hopefully, I am able to complete my goal. By putting this experiment public I am forcing myself to an audience. And with my brief experience with an online audience a few years ago, when you stop writing they throw happy tomatoes.

My writings will be a combination of random thoughts, specific subjects, rants, fictional stories, a poem perhaps, and everything in between. If you want to suggest a subject that I should write about, please send me a message.

The true purpose of this experiment may be to just be comfortable being seen by others. My mother loves to tell the story of when I was a child and I would hide behind her leg because I wasn’t comfortable with new people. Then, when I caught eye-contact with the stranger, I would say, “What are you looking at?”

It’s funny how we grow and it is funny how we never grow.

I want to keep these posts short and digestible for your busy life, so that will be it for now. As always, thank you for reading and joining me at the beginning of this new adventure down the rabbit hole.

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Author's Note #1: I am surprised that we have not developed giant, muscular thumbs from all the scrolling we do.